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b         *tʰ *tʷʰ *tː *d *dʷ             kʷʰ kːʷ ɡ ɡʷ    
 
 
 
 
ʔ
 
Ejective stops
          *tʼ               kʷʼ      
 
 
 
 
 
 
Affricates
                tʃʰ tʃʷʰ               qχʷ qχʷˁ qχˁ  
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sibilant affricates
            *tsʰ *tsʷʰ                      
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lateral affricates
        *tɬʰ *tɬʷʰ                          
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ejective affricates
            *tsʷʼ *tsʼ *tsːʼ *tɬʷʼ *tɬʼ   tʃʷʼ tʃʼ tʃːʼ               qχʷʼ qχʷˁʼ qχʼ qχˁʼ qχˁːʼ qχːʼ  
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nasal
  m           *n                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trill
                           
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
Tap, Flap
                                               
Lateral flap
 
 
 
 
                   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
R-sounds
              *R                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fricative
              *z ʃ ʃʷ ʃʷː ʃː ʒ ʒʷ             χ χʷ χʷˁ χˁ χː χːʷ χːʷˁ χːˁ ʁ ʁʷ ʁʷˁ ʁˁ ħ ʕ     h  
Sibilant fricatives
            *s *sʷ *sː *sːʷ *zʷ                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lateral fricative
 
 
 
 
    *ɬʷ *ɬʷː *ɬː                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Approximant
                          j   w                
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
      *l                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Selected languages: Archi
UPSID number: 2605
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: Caucasian
The languages has 91 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds:
Comments:

Archi is spoken in mountainous areas of the
southern Dagestan ASSR, in the Soviet Union. Kodzasov
(1977) treats pharyngealization as a 'suprasegmental'
element which can be focussed on a vowel or a uvular
consonant. Particularly in the latter case it seems
preferable to treat it as segmental. Originally only velar
and uvular consonants (and the long lateral fricative ?)
had contrastive labialization but there are now a few
words with distinctive labialization on most of the
dental/alveolar or palato-alveolar obstruents. The voiced
lateral fricative arises from morphological combination of
a lateral ejective and a dental/alveolar stop but surface
contrasts occur with other laterals.

Sources:

Kodzasov, S.V. 1977. Fonetika Archinskogo Jazyka. Part 2
of A.E. Kibrik, S.V. Kodzasov, I.P. Olovjannikova,
D.S. Samedov (eds.), Opyt Strukturnogo Opisanija
Archinskogo Jazyka, Vol. 1, Izdatel'stvo Moskovskogo
Universiteta, Moscow.