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b     t̪ʰ                 ɡ  
 
 
 
 
ʔ
 
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      t̪ʼ                      
 
 
 
 
 
 
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                tʃʰ                
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sibilant affricates
        t̪s̪ʰ d̪z̪                        
 
 
 
 
 
 
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        t̪s̪ʼ       tʃʼ                  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  m           n                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
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              r            
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
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ɸ β             ʃ ʒ             χ ʁ ħ       h  
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    ɬ                      
 
 
 
 
 
 
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                          j                    
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
      l                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Selected languages: Bats
UPSID number: 2604
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: Caucasian, Caucasian
The languages has 45 segments
Frequency index: N/A
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Comments:

Bats is spoken in the Akhmetsk region of
northern Georgia, USSR. Nasalized vowels only occur in a
few inflectional endings but contrast with vowel + nasal.
Desheriev (1953) also notes 3 long vowels but at least
some examples are clearly just juxtapositions of two
separate vowels. Similarly the diphthongs he reports seem
to be a sequence of two adjacent vowels. Especially
restricted are the "nasalized diphthongs" which all end in
nasalized 'i' and occur only in inflectional endings.

Sources:

Desheriev, J.D. 1953. Batsbijskij Jazyk. Izdatel'stvo
Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow.