Karakalpak Language - Sounds

Sounds

Karakalpak has 21 native consonant phonemes and regularly uses 4 non-native phonemes in loan words. Non-native sounds are shown in parentheses.

Consonant phonemes
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive p b t d k ɡ q
Affricate (t͡s) (t͡ʃ)
Fricative (f) (v) s z ʃ ʒ x ɣ h
Rhotic r
Approximant l j w

Read more about this topic:  Karakalpak Language

Famous quotes containing the word sounds:

    “To me, the sea is like a person—like a child that I’ve known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I’m out there.”
    —Gertrude Ederle (b. 1906)

    ““Try speaking. Say ‘Hello!’”
    “Hello. Hello.”
    “What do you hear?”
    “I hear an empty room—
    You know it sounds that way. And yes, I hear
    I think I hear a clock and windows rattling....””
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)