5. Sound system of Kazakh language
There are 28 native sounds in Kazakh language: 9 of them are vowels and 19 are consonants. In
1929 during reform the new vowel "хы" was added and we had 29 sounds. In the alphabet used
nowadays they are determined as follows: а, ә, е, о, ө, ұ, ү, ы, і - vowels; б, ғ, г, д, ж, з, й, қ, к, л,
м, н, ң, п, р, с, т, у, ш, һ consonants (а, о, ұ, ы, е are phonemes, and ә, ө, ү, і – their allophones;
ғ-г and қ-к are types of consonance of one phoneme). And in 1940 during reform 11 sounds of
Russian language were added to Kazakh language. In the applied alphabet they are indicated by в,
ё, и, ц, ч, щ, ф, х, э, ю, я. Let’s take a closer look at the sounds в, х and ф, which do not violate
phonetic patterns of Kazakh language. First of them is widely used in writing of the last name of a
person. In spite of the fact that at writing of the last name of all Kazakhs in Kazakh language
(without using the sound в) a problem of the correct writing of the last names of representatives of
other nationalities in official documents in official language still takes place. Besides, if we take
into account importance of numerous terms, such as «валюта, вакуум, вакцина, вариант, ватт,
вектор, вексель, вето, викторина, вирус, виртуал, вице, вокал, вольт, хадис, хаки, халат,
хаос, химия, хлор, хор, хром, хроника, хрусталь, хунта, факт, факультет, фаза, файл,
фауна, федерация, фельетон, физика, филармония, фильм, фонетика, формула, форфор,
фосфор, фотон, фракция, функция», it is better to leave embedded sounds в, х, ф in the structure
of the voice system of Kazakh language. Kazakh language will not suffer from this; on the contrary,
these sounds will help to pronounce the international terms correctly. Thus, we can assume that
there will be 31 sounds in the sound system of the Kazakh language. These are: а, ә, б, в, ғ, г, д, ж,
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