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Kurmanji (Kurdish)

Location Turkey, Syria, Iran
Family INDO-EUROPEAN (Indo-Iranian)
Reference Kahn, Margaret (1976) Borrowing and variation in a phonological description of Kurdish. Ann Arbor: UMI.
Core inventory
pʰ,tʰ,cʰ,kʰ,p,pˤ,t,tˤ,c,cˤ,k,kˤ,ʔ,i,u,b,d,ɟ,ɡ,ɪ,ʊ,f,s,sˤ,ʃ,x,ħ,h,e,o,z,zˤ,ʒ,æ,a,m,n,l,ɾ,r,w,j,ʕ
Marginal inventory
Consonants
pʰ,tʰ,cʰ,kʰ,p,pˤ,t,tˤ,c,cˤ,k,kˤ,ʔ,b,d,ɟ,ɡ,f,s,sˤ,ʃ,x,ħ,h,z,zˤ,ʒ,m,n,l,ɾ,r,w,j,ʕ
Vowels
i,u,ɪ,ʊ,e,o,æ,a
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