Adyghe is a language of the Northwest Caucasian family which, like the other Northwest Caucasian languages, is very rich in consonants, featuring many labialized and ejective consonants. Adyghe is phonologically more complex than Kabardian, having the retroflex consonants and their labialized forms.
Adyghe exhibits a large number of consonants: between 50 and 60 consonants in the various Adyghe dialects. Below is the IPA phoneme chart of the consonant phonemes of Adyghe.
In contrast to its large consonant inventory, Adyghe has only three phonemic vowels in a classic vertical vowel system. /ə/ and /ɐ/ have varying allophones, whereas /aː/ has a more limited set. Realization of vocalic allophones is based on the surrounding consonants.[6][7][8]
Stress in Adyghe is phonemic, in that it is unpredictable.[6] The lexical stress tends to fall on one of two last syllables of the word stem. Longer words can also have multiple stress patterns, as in below:
Orthography / Transliteration: чэлэцъикор / čʼălăcikor Stress 1: чэлэцъикор / čʼălăcikor Stress 2: чэлэцъикор / čʼălăcikor Stress 3: чэлэцъикор / čʼălăcikor Stress 4: чэлэцъикор / čʼălăcikor Stress 5: чэлэцъикор / čʼălăcikor Blue: Primary stress Green: Secondary stress
However, the functional load of stress is extremely low, but yet there are pairs that differ optionally.
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