ANALYSIS OF THE KARL HEINRICH MENGES’S CONCEPTS ON KARAKALPAK PHONOLOGY

This article is devoted to investigate the elements and structure of the inventory system of consonant phonemes of the Karakalpak language. This necessity is dictated by the fact that the construction of structural schemes of various systems objectively requires the use of unified procedures for determining the elements of this system. Phonemes are elements of the phonological systems of the language. In systemic phonology, they are defined as functional systems of differentiating features. Currently, analytical procedures of system phonology are developed on the basis of articulatory characteristics of phonological elements.