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 (esp. high vowels (Bishkek), and low vowels as related to rounding harmony)
• The 9th vowel, phonemic?

By:

• Age
• Urbanisation
• Multilingualism (esp. influence from Russian (Bishkek), Kazakh (Talas), Uzbek (Osh))