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Table 21. Orthographic consonant chart
Bilabial
Labiodental
Alveolar
Postalveolar
Palatal Velar Uvular
Glotto-
Pharyngeal
Plosive p b t d k g q
Nasal m n
Trill rr 69
Flap
r
Affricate
ç c
Fricative f v s z ş j x ẍ h ḧ ˈ
Approximant w y
Lateral
approximant
l
5.3.3.1.5.1 Consonant feature rhyme
Two poems in the corpus exhibit instances of consonant feature rhyme. In (166)
the words hestî and destî exhibit true rhyme. The word geztî, however, does not. For the
rhyme, Nalbend, the poet of these lines, is relying on the similarities between s and
z―the codas of the first syllables of the rhymed sequences. Both consonants use the
alveolar place of articulation and the same manner of articulation, fricative. The only
difference is that s is unvoiced and z is voiced.
(166) li min ḧelîan leş u hestî (AN1:45-47)
me gut mare ezê geztî
bi remza bazinêt destî
The other instances of consonant feature rhyme occur in Nalbend’s Kiçkek Me
Divêt, ‘We Want A Girl.’ After the initial quatrain, which has a rhyme scheme of AAXA,
the poem follows a rhyme scheme of XAXA, rhyming every even numbered line. The
disyllabic end rhymes follow the likes of mişti, tişti and ziştî, shown in (167). However,
lines 16, 18, 22 and 28, shown in (168), depend on consonant feature rhyme in order to
rhyme with the rest of the rhymed lines. In these instances, the sound j, the coda of the
69 See § 4.2.2.