East-A Altaic'

A more conservativ subfamily of East Altaic', spoken in NW Himalayas.

Some sound changes from Proto-East Altaic':

• ʈ → q
• ɪ ʊ → ə → ʌ
• ɜ → ∅ (generally)
• æ → e, je, ɑ varyingly
• i u → e o / _q(ʷ)
• loss of labialized uvulars (merging into labiovelars or plain uvulars)
• prenasalization drops
• ɢ → ʁ → ∅, h
• β → v
• labialized velars → labial-velars
• fricativ voicing intervocally
• ʂ ʐ → x r

A typical phoneme system is (phonemes only occuring in few languages in parentheses):

	Labial	Dental / alveolar	Post- alveolar	Velar	Labial- velar	Uvular / glottal
Voiceless stops	p	t	ʧ	k	kp	q
Voiced stops	b	d	ʤ	ɡ	ɡb
Voiceless fricativs	(f)	s	ʃ	x		h
Voiced fricativs	v	z	ʒ	(ɣ)
Nasals	m	n		ŋ	ŋm
Approximants		l	r       j		w

	Front	Lax	Back
Hi	i	(ɪ ~ ɨ)	u
Mid	e	ʌ	o
Lo	a ~ ɑ