Turkic Sonority Constraints

The orthography used to represent Turkic languages on this page is a phonemic system based on Turkish orthography. This is done to avoid focusing on the phonetic differences between different languages used. The IPA is used when describing the phonetics of Turkic languages.

Kazakh

Further effects of nasals

What happens to /+m/ after other morphemes

morpheme	/V+/	/r+/	/l+/	/j+/	/w+/	/n+/	/m+/	/ŋ+/	C [+voice]	C [-voice]
-mA(neg)	m	m	m	m	m	b	b	b	b	p
-mA(Q)	m	m	m	m	m	b	b	b	b	p
-mA(nom)									b
-mAK	m	m	m	m	m	b	b	b	b	p
-mIz	m	m	m	m	m?	b	b	b	b	p
-mIn	m	m	m	m	m?	m	m	m	b	p
-men	m	m	m	m	m	m	m	m	b	p

Kyrgyz

Assimilation

morpheme	/V+/	/r+/	/j+/	/l+/	/n+/	/m+/	/ŋ+/	C [+voice]	C [-voice]
-NI(acc)	n	d	d	d				d	t
-LAr(pl)	l	l	l	d				d	t

• The morpheme *-MI has become -bI in Kyrgyz

Bibliography

• Ахматов Т. К., Давлетов С. А., Жапаров Ш. Ж., Захарова О. В. 1975. Киргизский Язык. Фрунзе: Мектеп.