Kubachi language
| Kubachi | |
|---|---|
| гӀугъбуган (Kubachin) | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Dagestan |
Northeast Caucasian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | kuba1248 |
Kubachi (alternatively Kubachin) is a language in the Dargin dialect continuum spoken in Dagestan, Russia. It is often considered a divergent dialect of Dargwa. Ethnologue lists it under the dialects of Dargwa but recognizes that it may be a separate language.[1]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyn- geal |
Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||||||||||
| voiceless | p | pː | t | tː | k | kː | q | qː | ʔ | |||||
| ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | qʼ | ||||||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡sː | t͡ʃ | t͡ʃː | |||||||||
| ejective | t͡sʼ | t͡ʃʼ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | sː | ʃ | ʃː | x | xː | χ | χː | ʜ | ||||
| voiced | z | ʒ | ʁ | ʢ | ɦ | |||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | |||||||||||
- The glottal stop transcribed here is named rather ambiguously a "glottalic laryngeal" by both sources.
