Sounds
Karakalpak has 21 native consonant phonemes and regularly uses 4 non-native phonemes in loan words. Non-native sounds are shown in parentheses.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | ɡ | q | |||||
| Affricate | (t͡s) | (t͡ʃ) | ||||||||||
| Fricative | (f) | (v) | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | h | |||
| Rhotic | r | |||||||||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||||||||
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