Language/Kazakh/Grammar/Consonants

Sounds in Kazakh

Sounds can be consonant and vowel. Some people make mistakes when they make plural form of nouns. It's easy if the noun ends with a vowel (you just need to add -лАр), but it's different when it comes to consonants. I'm sorry, I couldn't traslate actual names of the types of the sounds.

3 types of consonants in Kazakh

If we learn them, we can choose suffixes correctly.

Types	Consonants
Type 1 - Sonorous (Үнді)	л, м, н, ң, р, й, (у)
Type 2 - Soft (Ұяң)	б, в, г, ғ, д, ж, з, һ
Type 3 - Hard (Қатаң)	к, қ, п, с, т, ф, х, ц, ч, ш, щ

2 types of vowels in Kazakh

Types	Vowels
Type 1 - Thick (Жуан)	а, ұ, о, ы, ұ, (у)
Type 2 - Thin (Жіңішке)	ә, е, ө, і, ү, и, (у)

Related Lessons

• Adjectives
• Future Tense
• Past Tense (ӨТКЕН ШАҚ)
• Plurals
• Conditional Mood
• Negation
• Pronouns
• Questions
• Nouns