My ipone contacts are deleted. How can I get them back?

Recently 80% of my iphone contacts mysteriously disappeared. I have them backed up in my itunes, however here is the conundrum: I don't know if I have my iphone set to "auto sync/auto backup" or not. If it is, and I plug my phone in, I will automatically lose all the backed up contacts because it will sync with my phone's current state (no contacts). But: I don't know how to check to see what it's set to (manual or auto backup) without plugging my phone in, because the iphone side bar doesn't appear in itunes until I plug my phone in.

Sorry but you permanently lost your contacts.

With android i can save all my contacts in.txt file on my sd card and if something were to ever happen to my contacts i can goto the.txt file and restore it in 5 secs

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