Variety Tsez (Nakh-Daghestanian)

Form Concept Segments

Consonants

Pulmonic Consonants
Place → Labial Coronal Dorsal Laryngeal
↓ Manner Bilabial Labio­dental Linguo­labial Dental Alveolar Palato-
alveolar		 Retroflex Alveolo-
palatal		 Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal
/ Epiglottal		 Glottal
Nasal mˤ m n nˤ
Stop p pˤ pʼ pʼˤ b bˤ tʼ t tˤ tʼˤ d kʼ k g qʼ qʼˤ
Sibilant affricate tsʼ tʃʼ tʃ tʃʼˤ tʃˤ
Non-sibilant affricate qχ qχˤ
Sibilant fricative s z ʃ ʒ ʒˤ
Non-sibilant fricative x χ ʁ ʁˤ ħ ʕ h
Approximant l j
Flap or tap
Trill r rˤ
Lateral affricate tɬʼ tɬʼˤ tɬ tɬˤ
Lateral fricative ɬ ɬˤ
Lateral approximant
Lateral flap
Implosive

Vowels

Front Near-front Central Near-back Back Close Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open iunrounded close front vowel iˤpharyngealized unrounded close front vowel urounded close back vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel orounded close-mid back vowel æunrounded near-open front vowel æːlong unrounded near-open front vowel aunrounded open front vowel aːlong unrounded open front vowel
Vowels

Other segments

 
Other segments
 w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant
 wˤ pharyngealized voiced labio-velar approximant consonant