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Ubykh phonology

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alone accounts for over 12% of all consonants encountered in connected text, due to the presence of the phoneme in the ergative and oblique singular and plural case suffixes, the third person singular and plural ergative verbal agreement prefix, the adverbial derivative suffix, the present and
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language, has the largest consonant inventory of all documented languages that do not use clicks, and also has the most disproportional ratio of phonemic consonants to vowels. It has consonants in at least eight, perhaps nine, basic
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The three postalveolar series have traditionally been called "postalveolar", "alveolo-palatal", and "retroflex", respectively, and have been transcribed with their associated symbols.
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have not been noted word-finally, but this is probably a statistical anomaly due to the rarity of these consonants, each being attested only in a handful of words.
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COCOON archive (COllections de COrpus Oraux Numériques) where several Ubykh stories recorded by Dumézil with French and English translation can be found
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argues that there are three vowels which correspond to Dumézil's respectively and this is evident in the minimal triplet of
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Palatalisation of the uvular consonants is no longer phonemic, also being replaced in many instances by gemination (standard
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A divergent dialect of Ubykh spoken by Osman Güngör, an inhabitant of Karacalar in Balıkesir province was investigated by
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are almost exclusively noted in words where they are associated with another pharyngealised consonant (for instance,
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difference can be phonemic when so many consonants are involved. However, the alveolopalatal labialised fricatives
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There is no standard IPA notation for the laminal-closed postalveolar series. They are transcribed ⟨
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is not common in native Ubykh vocabulary, appearing mostly in loan words. However, the phoneme carries a
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as a separate vowel, but most other linguists do not accept this analysis, preferring one with simpler
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Note the large number of basic series; Ubykh has basic consonants at nine places of articulation.
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Documents anatoliens sur les langues et les traditions du Caucase, III: Nouvelles études oubykhs
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were sometimes realised as alveolar labialised fricatives , and the uvular ejective stop
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All but four of the 84 consonants are found in native vocabulary. The plain velars
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consonants. The phonetic vowels are and . In general, the following rules apply:
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imperfect tense suffixes, and in suffixes denoting several non-finite verb forms.
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Güngör's speech differed phonologically from Standard Ubykh in a number of ways:
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The laminal and apical postalveolar series are more accurately transcribed as
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J. C., Catford (1977). "MOUNTAIN OF TONGUES: THE LANGUAGES OF THE CAUCASUS".
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and zero is often not phonemic, and may be dropped root-internally as well:
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Pharyngealisation is no longer distinctive, surviving only on the lexemes
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appears initially very frequently, particularly in the function of the
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Very few allophones of consonants are noted, mainly because a small
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was often pronounced as a glottal stop in the past tense suffix -
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concept of rolling or a repeated action in a few verbs, notably
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Both vowels appear without restriction finally, although when
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The glottal stop is also noted, but only as an allophone of
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should be retained is of some debate, since it differs from
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representation of the Karacalar Ubykh consonant inventory.
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Other, more complex vowels have been noted as allophones:
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Ubykh has very few basic phonemic vowels. The analysis in
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representation of the Standard Ubykh consonant inventory.
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itself may be dropped to provide an even shorter form
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is extremely restricted initially, appearing only in
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This kind of allomorphy is called a 1440:is found initially only in the personal name 8: 2641:, it is often derived from two instances of 1349:are found mainly in loans and onomatopoeia: 3117: 3103: 3095: 1436:has not been attested word-initially, and 1337:/tʷ, dʷ, tʷʼ/ are in free variation with . 2588:has, at least in some cases, merged with 2525:The labialised alveolopalatal fricatives 75:Learn how and when to remove this message 2716:Even with so few vowels, there are many 2647: 1497: 172: 38:This article includes a list of general 2974: 2962: 2950: 2889: 2865: 2633:not in length but in quality. However, 2897: 2842:('father') becomes the definite form 1527: 1522: 1507: 1502: 1500: 1345:and the voiced labiodental fricative 1334:are labiodental, the others bilabial. 202: 197: 182: 177: 175: 7: 2986: 2811:forms where all three arguments are 2602: 104:. For the distinction between , 1330:Out of the labials, the fricatives 1389:'to explode, to burst'). 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Annual Reviews Incorporated. 2584:The voiced retroflex affricate 1493:International Phonetic Alphabet 168:International Phonetic Alphabet 96:International Phonetic Alphabet 3071:, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2880:('I milk them; I reap them'). 2566:('roasted maize') → Karacalar 2514:the labialised alveolar stops 1421:, due to the influence of the 1315:and the labiodental fricative 1: 3015:Fenwick, Rohan S. H. (2011), 2938:Annual Review of Anthropology 2912:Annual Review of Anthropology 3347:Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect 2909:Siegel, Bernard J. (1977). 3923: 2539:seems to have disappeared. 1491:in the 1960s. Below is an 1361:('slat, batten') from Laz 18: 3136: 3019:, Munich: Lincom Europa, 2577:('to cough') → Karacalar 2456: 2389: 2327: 2050: 1669: 1553: 1546: 1539: 1532: 1517: 1512: 1483:Karacalar Ubykh Phonology 1203: 1134: 1070: 747: 347: 228: 221: 214: 207: 192: 187: 3033:Traill, Anthony (1985), 2780:sonorants (particularly 2621:. Other vowels, notably 162:Standard Ubykh Phonology 3379:Regional North American 1471:('to roll around') and 92:phonetic transcriptions 59:more precise citations. 3803:Dialects and varieties 3374:Received Pronunciation 3219:American Sign Language 2784:) may even decay into 1353:('crow') from Turkish 131:places of articulation 89:This article contains 2558:('dog') → Karacalar 1365:'roofing shingle'), 3728:Proto-Indo-European 3384:White South African 1455:The alveolar trill 126:Northwest Caucasian 3017:A Grammar of Ubykh 2965:, p. 266–269. 2876:('I reap X'), and 2546:('to be ill') and 1319:are only found in 1304:⟩, ⟨ 1300:⟩, ⟨ 1292:⟩, ⟨ 1288:⟩, ⟨ 3889: 3888: 3389:Standard Canadian 3130:world's languages 3044:978-3-87118-669-1 3026:978-3-86288-050-8 2896:See for instance 2809:ditransitive verb 2714: 2713: 2508: 2507: 2278: 2174: 2060: 1931: 1822: 1684: 1665: 1658: 1651: 1644: 1637: 1632: 1625: 1618: 1613: 1606: 1601: 1594: 1589: 1584: 1579: 1572: 1565: 1558: 1551: 1544: 1257: 1256: 1019: 893: 757: 616: 505: 362: 343: 338: 331: 324: 319: 312: 307: 300: 295: 288: 281: 276: 269: 264: 259: 252: 247: 240: 233: 226: 219: 85: 84: 77: 3914: 3741:Kerkrade dialect 3364:General American 3119: 3112: 3105: 3096: 3079: 3070: 3055: 3029: 3011: 3004:Dumézil, Georges 2990: 2984: 2978: 2972: 2966: 2960: 2954: 2948: 2942: 2941: 2933: 2927: 2926: 2906: 2900: 2894: 2879: 2875: 2871: 2857: 2853: 2849: 2845: 2841: 2837: 2830: 2826: 2822: 2818: 2806: 2801:definite article 2798: 2791: 2788:. 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Northwest Caucasian
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