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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
zˤ,w,j,ɾ,z,ʕ,ʒ,l,n,m,d,b,ɟ,ɡ,r,tʰ,pʰ,cʰ,kʰ,sˤ,tˤ,pˤ,cˤ,kˤ,s,h,f,ħ,ʃ,x,t,p,ʔ,c,k,u,i,æ,o,e,a,ʊ,ɪ
Marginal inventory
Consonants
zˤ,w,j,ɾ,z,ʕ,ʒ,l,n,m,d,b,ɟ,ɡ,r,tʰ,pʰ,cʰ,kʰ,sˤ,tˤ,pˤ,cˤ,kˤ,s,h,f,ħ,ʃ,x,t,p,ʔ,c,k
Vowels
u,i,æ,o,e,a,ʊ,ɪ
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