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Muslim Tat (Erzikyush-Dagkushchu)

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Iranic

Lat/lon: 40.954389, 48.914125

ISO code: ttt

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-dentalalveolarpostalveolarvelaruvularpharyngealglottal
stoppʰ, ptʰ, tkʰ, kqʔ
trillr
fricativef, vs, zʃ, ʒɣχʕ, ħh
affricatetʃʰ, tʃ
nasalmn
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontback
closei, yu
near-openæ
openɑ

Diphthongs

/ei/, /ou/, /ɵy/

Source: Грюнберг А.Л. 1963. Язык североазербайджанских татов. Ленинград: АН СССР.

Comments: /ʒ, ʕ/ are used ‘sporadically or not in all dialects’. /ei/ is often realised as a monophthong [e]. Some words display vowel harmony (spreading from the root both to the left and to the right), which is not lexically regular.

Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)