Fuyu Kyrgyz language

In 1980, Fuyu Girgis was spoken by a majority of adults in a community of around a hundred homes. However, many adults in the area have switched to speaking a local variety of Mongolian, and children have switched to Chinese as taught in the education system. ==Phonology==

Although a complete phonemic analysis of Girgis has not been done, Hu and Imart have made numerous observations about the sound system in their tentative description of the language. They describe Girgis as having the short vowels noted as "a, ï, i, o, ö, u, ü" which correspond roughly to IPA , with minimal rounding and tendency towards centralization. Vowel length is phonemic and occurs as a result of consonant-deletion (Girgis vs. Kyrgyz 'today'). Each short vowel has an equivalent long vowel, with the addition of . Girgis displays vowel harmony as well as consonant harmony. The consonant sounds in Girgis, including allophone variants, are . Girgis does not display a phonemic difference between the stop set and ; these stops can also be aspirated to in Chinese loanwords. == Sample text ==

A song in the Fuyu Kyrgyz language: ==See also==