EURPhon: Aghul (Huppuq’)

Phylum: Nakh-Daghestanian

Genus: Lezgic

Lat/lon: 41.836219, 47.660186

ISO code: agx

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	labio-dental	alveolar	postalveolar	palatal	velar	uvular	pharyngeal	glottal	epiglottal
stop	b, pʰ, pʼ			d, tʰ, tʼ			g, kʰ, kʼ	q, qʼ		ʔ	ʡ
trill				r							ʜ
fricative			f	z, s	ʒ, ʃ		x	ʁ, χ	ʕ	h
affricate				tsʰ, tsʼ	dʒ, tʃʰ, tʃʼ
nasal	m			n
approximant		w				j
lateral approximant				l

Long series

	bilabial	alveolar	postalveolar	velar	uvular
stop	pː	tː		kː	qː
affricate		tsː	tʃː

Short labialised series

	alveolar	postalveolar	velar	uvular	pharyngeal
stop	dʷ, tʷʰ, tʷʼ		gʷ, kʷʰ, kʷʼ	qʷ, qʷʼ
fricative	zʷ, sʷ	ʒʷ, ʃʷ	xʷ	ʁʷ, χʷ	ʕʷ
affricate	tsʷʰ, tsʷʼ	dʒʷ, tʃʷʰ, tʃʷʼ

Long labialised series

	alveolar	postalveolar	velar	uvular
stop	tʷː		kʷː	qʷː
affricate	tsʷː	tʃʷː

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i, y		u
close-mid	e		o
near-open	æ
open		a

Source: Maisak Timur. 2008. The Agul language in its Daghestanian context. Paper presented at the Seminar on Noun Phrase Typology (TypoULM), École Normale Supérieure, Paris, November 17, 2008. https://www.academia.edu/255835/The_Agul_language_in_its_Daghestanian_context_2008_

Comments: /æ, o/ are rare; /o/ is mostly found in Russian borrowings. /ʕ/ shares a column with /ʡ, ʜ/ so it may be a voiced epiglottal fricative.