Consonants
There are 54 consonants in Lezgian. Characters to the right are the letters of the Lezgian Cyrillic Alphabet. Note that aspiration is not normally indicated in the orthography, despite the fact that it is phonemic.
| Labial | Dental | (Post)- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | /m/ м | /n/ н | |||||||||
| Plosive | /b/ б | /d/ д | /g/ г | /gʷ/ гв | |||||||
| /p/ п | /t/ т | /tʷ/ тв | /k/ к | /kʷ/ кв | /q/ къ | /qʷ/ къв | /ʔ/ ъ | ||||
| /pʰ/ п | /tʰ/ т | /tʷʰ/ тв | /kʰ/ к | /kʷʰ/ кв | /qʰ/ хъ | /qʷʰ/ хъв | |||||
| /pʼ/ пI | /tʼ/ тI | /tʷʼ/ тIв | /kʼ/ кI | /kʷʼ/ кIв | /qʼ/ кь | /qʷʼ/ кьв | |||||
| Affricate | /t͡s/ ц | /t͡sʷ/ цв | /t͡ʃ/ ч | ||||||||
| /t͡sʰ/ ц | /t͡sʷʰ/ цв | /t͡ʃʰ/ ч | |||||||||
| /t͡sʼ/ цI | /t͡sʷʼ/ цIв | /t͡ʃʼ/ чI | |||||||||
| Fricative | /z/ з | /zʷ/ зв | /ʒ/ ж | /ʁ/ гъ | /ʁʷ/ гъв | ||||||
| /f/ ф | /s/ с | /sʷ/ св | /ʃ/ ш | /x/ хь | /χ/ х | /χʷ/ хв | /h/ гь | ||||
| Approximant | /l/ л | /j/ й | /w/ в | ||||||||
| Trill | /r/ р | ||||||||||
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