speech.) Kazakh has 19 native consonant phonemes; these are the stops , fricatives , nasals , liquids , and two glides . The sounds are found only in loanwords. is heard as an alveolo-palatal affricate in the Kazakh dialects of Uzbekistan and China. The sounds and may be analyzed as allophones of and in words with back vowels, but exceptions occur in loanwords.

* Voiced obstruents syllable-finally become devoiced, as normally indicated in the orthography.
* // can never occur