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Domaaki

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Indo-Aryan

Lat/lon: 36.313273, 74.655221

ISO code: dmk

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-dentalalveolarretroflexpalatalvelaruvularglottal
stopp, pʰ, bt, tʰ, dʈ, ʈʰ, ɖk, kʰ, gq, qʰ
trillr
fricatives, zʂçɣh
affricatets, tsʰʈʂ, ʈʂʰ, ɖʐtç, tçʰ, dʝ
nasalmnŋ
approximantʋj
lateral approximantl

Short palatalised series

retroflex
fricativeʐʲ

Vowels

Basic short series

frontback
closeiu
close-mideo
openɑ

Source: Vajnraih, M. 2011. Domaaki jazyk. Novyje indoarijskije jazyki, ed. by T.I. Oranskaya, Yu.V. Mazurova, A.A. Kibrik, L.I. Kulikov, and A.Yu. Rusakov, 165–194. Moskva: Academia.

Comments: The Doom came to their present area 200–300 years ago from Northern India. Phonemic status of vowel length has not been established. A diphthong /au/ may also be part of the inventory. /ʐʲ/ is mostly found in Burushaski borrowings. There are grammatical tonal alternations, but no examples of lexical distinctions are given.

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