Appendix:Kerch pronunciation

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The Kerch language has 18 consonants, 9 vowels, and 1 glide.

Standard Romanization

Letter	IPA	English example	Notes
a	a	father
b	b	bad
ch	tʃ	watch
d	d	dog
e
f	f	food
g	ɡ	good
gh	ɣ	—	Like the r in French rouge, or the g in Spanish fuego.
h	h	ham
i	i	machine
j	dʒ	joke
k	k	skill
l	l	left
m	m	man
n	n	no
o
oe
p	p	spy
r
s	s	see
t	t	stop
u	u	rude
v	v	voice
w	w	wet
z	z	zoo

Notes:

• Long vowels are written by doubling the letter.

Phonetics

Consonants

		Labial	Coronal	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	ch [tʃ]	k
	voiced	b	d	j [dʒ]	g
Fricative	voiceless	f	s			h
	voiced	v	z		gh [ɣ]
Approximant		w	l
			r

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e, ee		o, oo
Open		a, aa

Additionally, the language has a vowel romanized as oe.