Morphology of Crimean Tatar

Morphophonology

The voicing problem

voiced	before %>: :Vow		never		always		ortho always
voiceless	syllable-finally		always		never		phonol _ %>: :Cns
	nouns	verbs	nouns	verbs	nouns	verbs	nouns	verbs
p/b	mektep tüp ğarp cenüp inqilâp tertip terkip sebep mezep			yap- tap- sep-	Zagreb klub
v/f			taraf inkişaf		oquv ödev Harkov Lvov		Harkov Lvov
t/d	at²		at¹ prezident komitet ükümet ümüt malümat devlet yurt dört? azat	et- qayt- bat- añlat-	ad Volgograd Vikislad Kirovograd parad Asad		zavod Leningrad Bağdad (foto)parad Kaliningrad Belgrad
s/z			tüs reys kongress	bas- ös-
ç/c	uç		üç küç	uç- aç-	uc borc
ş/j	garaş		baş tiş keñeş	qoş-	füzelâj ekipaj plâj garaj
k/g	bilek birlik kerek bütünlik bölük				ög miting		miting
q/ğ	qulaq çaq uçaq soqaq topraq başlıq			baq- çıq-	dağ bağ	doğ-

Generalisations

• final coronals never voice or devoice
• final p/k/q voice intervocalically in nouns only
• in some(?) Russian borrowings ending in certain "voiced" final obstruents (d, g, v, maybe j?), following consonants can devoice as if the obstruent is unvoiced. However, with many of these, both forms are attested. We'll need to analyse both and choose which to generate.