Cyrillic Digraphs - Kabardian

Kabardian

Kabardian uses ⟨у⟩ for labialization, as Ӏу /ʔʷ/. гу is /ɡʷ/, though г is /ɣ/); ку is /kʷ/, despite the fact that к is not used outside loan words. Other digraphs are:

  • Slavic дж /ɡʲ/, дз /dz/
  • Ejectives in ⟨Ӏ⟩: кӀ /kʲʼ/ (but кӀу is /kʷʼ/), лӀ /ɬʼ/, пӀ /pʼ/, тӀ /tʼ/, фӀ /fʼ/, цӀ /tsʼ/, щӀ /ɕʼ/
  • Other consonants: гъ /ʁ/, жь /ʑ/, къ /qʼ/, лъ /ɬ/ (from л /ɮ/), хь /ħ/, хъ /χ/
  • The trigraph кхъ /q/

Labialized, the trigraph becomes the unusual tetragraph кхъу /qʷ/.

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