Pharingealisation in turkic languages of South Siberia as reflection of language contacts
The problem of the origin of a pharyngealization attracts attention of linguists for a long time. The article deals with the phonemic status of the pharyngealization of vowels, articulatory and acoustic nature of that phenomenon, vowel harmony according to a pharyngealization and the pharyngeal vowel harmony on the example of some contemporary Turkic languages of the South Siberia (Tuvinian, North Altaic dialects and so on). The author considers pharyngealization as the effect of linguistic contacts of Turkic people.