Phonetics & Phonology

This is a phone-level inventory of the currently reviewed Genç recordings in the Genç wordset. It is a descriptive inventory of the dataset, not a claim that every listed phone is contrastive in the language. The inventory excludes recordings whose IPA still needs review in the current working data. Rows missing current orthography or IPA […]

These notes describe recurring phonological and phonetic patterns in the Genç recordings from the May 2026 Zazaca Öğren export. They are not a full grammar of Genç Zazaki, and they should not be read as claims about every speaker from the area. The scope is narrower: document patterns that are well supported in this speaker’s