Things to look at in Kyrgyz dialects

What to look at:

• Rounding harmony systems
• How far through a word harmony spreads
• Monopthongisation — phonetic and phonological
• Tonogenesis
• Acoustic properties of vowel system
  • [reduction and diphthongisation of] high vowels (Russified in Bishkek, Kazakhified in Talas?)
  • low vowels as related to rounding harmony
• The 9th vowel, phonemic?

By:

• Age
• Urbanisation (city, village, steppe)
• Multilingualism (esp. influence from Russian (Bishkek), Kazakh (Talas), Uzbek (Osh))
• Tribe, apparently