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Labial
Coronal
Dorsal
Radical
Laryngeal
Bilabial
Labio-dental
Dental
Alveolar
Palato-alveolar
Retroflex
Palatal
Velar
Uvular
Pharyngeal
Epi-glottal
Glottal
Plosive
 p b     t̪ d̪                 k ɡ    
 
 
 
 
  
 
Affricates
                 tʃ dʒ                
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sibilant affricates
         t̪s̪ d̪z̪                        
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nasal
   m       n̪                   ŋ    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trill
               r            
 
 
    
 
 
    
 
 
Tap, Flap
                                                
Lateral flap
 
 
 
 
                    
 
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fricative
   β f           ʃ                              
Sibilant fricatives
         s̪                          
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lateral fricative
 
 
 
 
                            
 
 
 
 
 
 
Approximant
                           j                    
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
   l̪                        
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Near-front
Central
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Back
 
Close
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open
Selected languages: Tuva
UPSID number: 2165
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: Ural-Altaic, Turkic
The languages has 29 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds: [p] [b] [t̪] [d̪] [k] [ɡ] [s̪] [ʃ] [β] [f] [t̪s̪] [d̪z̪] [tʃ] [dʒ] [r] [l̪] [j] [m] [n̪] [ŋ] [y] [i] [u] [ø] [e] [o] [ɤ] [ɛ] [ɑ]
Comments:

Tuva is spoken primarily in Tuva ASSR in USSR.
Accounts of the Tuva vowel system differ widely.
The system given here is that of Song (1982) since this
makes the basis of vowel harmony clear: front and back
vowels belong to different sets. All vowels occur long
and maybe nasalized. Song mentions that older speakers
distinguish a series of vowels with tense phonation.
Place of articulation is based on Seglenmej (1979).
Sources:

Sat, S.C. 1966. Tuvinskij jazyk. In V.V. Vinogradov (ed.),
Jazyki Narodov SSSR, Vol 2. Nauka, Moscow and Leningrad:
387-402.

Seglenmej, S.F. 1979. Tuvinskie perednejazychnye v
tverdorjadnykh slovoformakh. In V.M. Nadeljaev (ed.),
Fonetika Sibirskikh Jazykov. Akademija Nauk SSSR,
Sibirskoe Otdelenie, Institut Istorii, Filologii i
Filosofii, Novosibirsk, pp. 35-44.

Song, Z. 1982. Woguo tuwayu yinxi chutan (A Preliminary
Study of the Phonological System of the Tuva Language in
China). Minzu Yuwen, 1982.6 (December), 58-65.