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Notes on vowel quality: Kyrgyz vowel space is different in affixes and stems. Washington (2007) describes the former as more typical and more condensed. [2] In stem vowel space, the main difference between /e/ and /i/ is that the latter is more back. In affix vowel space, they can have the same backness, and differ by height. [2]
In the Kyrgyz Cyrillic alphabet, there are 15 vowels, and in Kyrgyz Arabic Alphabet, there are 13. The discrepancy is for two reasons. First, in Kyrgyz Cyrillic, both vowels Э э and Е е were imported from the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. They essentially make the same sound, and the choice comes down to a matter of orthographic rule.
The sentence above is also an excellent example of Kyrgyz vowel harmony; notice that all the vowel sounds are front vowels. Several nominalisation strategies are used depending on the temporal properties of the relativised verb phrase: -GAn(dIK) for general past tense, -AAr for future/potential unrealised events, and -A turgan(dɯq) for non ...
Pamir Kyrgyz (Kyrgyz: پامیری قیرغیزچه) is a dialect of the Kyrgyz language natively spoken in the Chitral district and Gojal Valley of Pakistan and Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan. [2] It has been evolving into a distinct dialect of Kyrgyz due to its isolation. [3] The dialect is known by its speakers as Black Kyrgyz (کاره ...
Langel explained that the technique involves singing open vowels to hit higher notes in difficult songs; something she learned while doing eight shows a week in her Broadway career for shows like ...
The front value of а is required by vowel harmony with the following front vowel ә, so this spelling is unambiguous. If, however, the proper value of the vowel is not recoverable through vowel harmony, then the letter ь /ʔ/ is added at the end of the syllable, as in шагыйрь /ʃaʁir/ "poet".
Vowel constructs that can be used as independent syllable without consonants are shown in parentheses. There are rhotacised vowels , as well as some syllables only seen in loan words from Russian, Arabic, Kyrgyz, etc., in addition to the above table.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Kyrgyz on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Kyrgyz in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.