Things to look at in Kyrgyz dialects

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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))