THE PARTICULARITIES OF THE VOWEL SYSTEM OF THE CHECHEN AND INGUSH LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article examines features of vowel sounds, analyzes the primary a, â, a, â, ā, i, ī, ie, iē, u, ū, uo, uō and secondary vowels ä, e, ē, ü, ǖ, ö (uö), ( uöö), o, ō, oa of the Chechen and Ingush languages. The system of vowel phonemes (derivatives, non-derivatives) of the Chechen and Ingush languages is considered. The characteristics of simple (monophthongs) and complex (diphthongs), long and short vowels are given. Moreover, the article pays attention to the issue of the presence of the diphthong oa in the flat dialect of the Chechen language, due to the fact that linguists (A.G. Magomedov, Yu.D. Desheriev) deny the presence of the diphthong oa in the Chechen language. According to our observations, in the Chechen language, the system of vocalism is represented as follows: primary a, â, â, i, σ, ie, iē, u, ü, uo, uō. These vowel phonemes are characteristic of the Ingush language and all the dialects of the Chechen language, except the Pkharchkhoy variety of the Akkinsky dialect, where one can observe the process of monophthongization among the diphthongs ie (→e), iē (→ē), uo (→u), uō (→ū).