bilabial | labio-dental | alveolar | postalveolar | velar | uvular | pharyngeal | glottal | |
stop | pʰ, p | tʰ, t | kʰ, k | q | ʔ | |||
trill | r | |||||||
fricative | f, v | s, z | ʃ, ʒ | ɣ | χ | ʕ, ħ | h | |
affricate | tʃʰ, tʃ | |||||||
nasal | m | n | ||||||
lateral approximant | l |
front | back | |
close | i, y | u |
near-open | æ | |
open | ɑ |
/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)