Gurdish – Phonology

Sounds

Consonants

The Gurdish language (andurgagurd, Andurgagurd) does not distinguish between voiced and unvoiced consonants, though in most environments all consonants are pronounced as voiced.

	Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	b <b>	d <d>		g <g>
Fricative	β <v>		z <z>		ɦ <h>
Affricate			dz <j>
Nasal	m <m>	n <n>		ŋ <ng>
Approximant			ɹ <r>
Velarized Lateral Approximant			ɫ <l>

Vowels

Gurdish has only three vowels: a (open front unrounded), u (close back rounded), and o (open-mid back rounded).

Diphthongs

Gurdish has no attested diphthongs.

Stress

Gurdish words always accent the first syllable, with no secondary stress on following syllables.

Alphabet

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A	B	D	G	H	J	L
a	b	d	g	h	j	l
M	N	O	R	U	V	Z
m	n	o	r	u	v	z