Kyrgyz phonology

This article is about the phonology and phonetics of the Kyrgyz language.
Stress.
Recent loanwords often retain their original stress.
Desonorisation and devoicing.
In Kyrgyz, suffixes beginning with show desonorisation of the to after consonants (including ), and devoicing to after voiceless consonants; e.g. the definite accusative suffix -NI patterns like this: ('the boat'), ('the month'), ('the net'), ('the hand'), ('the dawn'), ('the eye'), ('the head').
Suffixes beginning with also show desonorisation and devoicing, though only after consonants of equal or lower sonority than , e.g. the plural suffix -LAr patterns like this: ('boats'), ('months'), ('nets'), ('hands'), ('dawns'), ('eyes'), ('heads'). Other -initial suffixes, such as -LA, a denominal verbal suffix, and -LUU, a denominal adjectival suffix, may surface either with or after ; e.g. / ('to net/weave'), / ('various').
See Kyrgyz language#Case for more examples.