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Moroz, George (2021). “Pharyngeals”. In: Typological Atlas of the Languages of Daghestan (TALD), v 2.0.1. Ed. by George Moroz, Michael Daniel, Konstantin Filatov, Timur Maisak, Timofey Mukhin, Irina Politova, Elena Shvedova, Samira Verhees and Chiara Naccarato. Moscow: Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE University. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6807070. https://lingconlab.ru/tald.

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@incollection{moroz2021,
  title = {Pharyngeals},
  author = {George Moroz},
  year = {2021},
  editor = {George Moroz and Michael Daniel and Konstantin Filatov and Timur Maisak and Timofey Mukhin and Irina Politova and Elena Shvedova and Samira Verhees and Chiara Naccarato},
  publisher = {Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE University},
  address = {Moscow},
  booktitle = {Typological Atlas of the Languages of Daghestan (TALD), v 2.0.1},
  url = {https://lingconlab.ru/tald},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6807070},
}

General chapter: Phonology

Pharyngeals in the Caucasus are covered extensively in the literature (Catford 1983; Kodzasov 1986, 1987; Colarusso 2013; Arkhipov et al. 2019; Beljaev 2021). Even thought there is a new model of laryngeal articulation (Esling 1996, 2005), it is hard to adjust data created within the old model to the new approach without a new acoustic study, therefor I will use the standard IPA model here, which distinguishes pharyngeals (ħ, ʕ) and epiglottals (ʜ, ʢ, ʡ).

The most common scenario is one place of articulation (or none): either pharyngeal or epiglottal, with a voiced and a voiceless consonant. The rest of the systems are connected to an epiglottal stop that is merged with different subsystems. There are also rare cases with just one pharyngeal consonant: ħ or ʢ.

Table 1. Inventories of pharyngeals and epiglottals

fricative inventory languages
ħ, ʕ, ʡ Avar, Southwestern Dargwa
ħ, ʜ, ʡ Mehweb
ʜ, ʡ Chechen
ħ, ʡ Hinuq, Rutul, Tat
ħ Azerbaijani, Tsez
ħ, ʕ Northern Akhvakh, Upper Andi, Archi, Bezhta, Botlikh, Budukh, Chamalal, Kajtag, Godoberi, Hunzib, Ingush, Tukita, Khinalug, Khwarshi, Kryz, Tindi, Tsova-Tush
none Eastern Armenian, Georgian, Karata, Kumyk, Lak, Lezgian, Nogai, Tabasaran, Tsakhur, Udi

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