PHONETIC SYSTEM

PHONETIC SYSTEM of the Bashkir language, the total of speech sounds, characterized by common and distinguishing features as compared to the sound system of related and unrelated languages. There are. 9 vowels in the vocalism of the Bashkir language. The sounds [а] and [ы] remained unchanged; the other common Turkic vowels were transformed into narrow(“көл” (lake) к[ө]л – Bashkir “күл” к[ү]л); narrow – into wide (“тиш” (tooth) т[и]ш – Bashkir “теш” т[э^е]ш), etc. The vowels, borrowed from Russian, differ from them in articulation. Consonantism has 24 consonants (ref. Alphabet). The peculiarity is the availability of sounds [һ], [ҫ], [ҙ]. The common Turkic [ч] in all positions in a word became [c]: “чаҡ” (time, it's time) [ч]аҡ – Bashkir “саҡ” [c]аҡ. The peculiarity of the Bashkir and common Turkic phonetics is vowel harmony, when the hardness and softness of a consonant depends on the position of vowels: with deep vowels they are pronounced hard, with front vowels – soft.