The Uzbek language has a phoneme inventory consisting of 26 consonants and 6 vowels. The vowels are /a, e, i, o, u, ɨ/. Uzbek's consonants include stops like /p, b, t, d, k, g/, fricatives such as /f, v, s, z, ʃ, ʒ, x, ɣ/, nasals /m, n, ŋ/, and others like /l, r, j, w/