Kubachi language
| Kubachi | |
|---|---|
|
гӀугъбуган (Kubachin) | |
| Region | Dagestan |
Native speakers | (no estimate available) |
|
Northeast Caucasian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog |
kuba1248[1] |
Kubachi (alternatively Kubachin) is a language from the Dargin dialect continuum spoken in Dagestan, Russia. It is often considered a divergent dialect of Dargwa. The Ethnologue lists it under the dialects of Dargwa, but recognizes that it may be a separate language.[2]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Epi- glottal |
Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||||||||||
| voiceless | p | pː | t | tː | k | kː | q | qː | ʔ | |||||
| ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | qʼ | ||||||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡sː | t͡ʃ | t͡ʃː | |||||||||
| ejective | t͡sʼ | t͡ʃʼ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | sː | ʃ | ʃː | x | xː | χ | χː | ʜ | ||||
| voiced | z | ʒ | ʁ | ʢ | ɦ | |||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | |||||||||||
- The glottal stop transcribed here is named rather ambiguously a "glottalic laryngeal" by both sources.
- Also note that the source names the epiglottal series ″pharyngeal″ indiscriminately in all the tables, also when it includes a plosive and thus clearly isn't a true pharyngeal.
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kubachi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Ethnologue report for Dargwa
- ↑ Consonant Systems of the North-East Caucasian Languages on TITUS DIDACTICA
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