East-A Altaic'

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

Some sound changes from Proto-East Altaic':

• loss of contrastiv labialization in uvulars
• labialized velars → labial-velars
• ɜ → ʌ
• æ, ɑ → ɑ̵
• ʊ → o
• fricativ voicing
• retroflex loss: ʈ ʂ ʐ → q x r (probably occurs in phases — ʈ → q appears to be the oldest change)

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	u
Mid	e	ʌ	o
Lo	a ~ ɑ