Turkic phonemic transcription

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I use a version of the Turkish alphabet (more similar to the Latin alphabet used for Tatar) to represent Turkic languages phonemically. This tries to summarise the system.

orthography Kazakh Kyrgyz Tatar Turkish Uzbek
a а /a/ а /ɑ/ а /ɒ/ а /ɑ/ a /a/
ä ә /æ/ — /a~æ/ ә /æ/ a /æ/
aa, ā аа /ɑː/ ağ(a) /ɑː/
â, å — /ɔ/ а /ɒ/ o /ɒ~ɔ/
b б /b/ б /b~w/ б /b/ b /b/
e е /i̯ɘ/ e, э /e/ e /ɘ/ e /ɛ/
ee, ē ээ /eː/
i і /ɘ/ и /i/ и /i/ i /ɪ/ i /ɨ/