Phonology
Salar phonology has been influenced by Tibetan and Chinese. In addition, /k, q/ and /g, ɢ/ have become separate phonemes due to loanwords, as it has in other Turkic languages.
| Labial | Dental | Retroflex | Alveolopalatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | ɡ | q | ɢ | ||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʂ | d͡ʐ | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʂ | ɕ | x | ʁ | h | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | l r | j | ||||||||||||
Salar vowels are as in Turkish, with the back vowels a, ɨ, o u and the corresponding front vowels e, i, ø, y.
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