ON THE QUESTION OF THE PHONEMATICITY OF THE LARINGAL ABRUPTIVE (IN LANGUAGES OF VARIOUS TYPOLOGIES)

Abstract

The article presents a distributional analysis of such specific sounds of Dagestan languages as laryngeal consonants. A characteristic feature of the consonantal system of the Dagestan languages is the presence in them of a developed consonant system, in which laryngeal, uvular, pharyngeal, lateral and laryngeal consonants are represented. The number of consonant phonemes varies in different Dagestan languages from 45 to 50. Among researchers of Dagestan languages, there is no consensus on the issue of qualification of laryngeal plosive abruptives. The article identifies the conditions under which laryngeal abruptives in Dagestan languages can be qualified as independent phonemes. For comparison, similar laryngeal sounds from languages of various typologies of Germanic (German) and Semitic (Arabic) are used. Involving material from other languages makes it possible to clarify the status of laryngeal plosive abruptives of the Dagestan languages.