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Standard Chinese (Beijing)

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Sinitic

Lat/lon: 39.90403, 116.4075

ISO code: cmn

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velarlabio-dentalalveolarpostalveolaralveolo-palatalpalatalvelar
stopp, pʰt, tʰk, kʰ
fricativefsʃ̺ɕx
affricatets, tsʰtʃ̺, tʃ̺ʰtɕ, tɕʰ
nasalmnŋ
approximantwɹ̺j
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closei, yu
close-midɤ
midə
opena

Apical vowels

/ɿ/

Diphthongs

/ai/, /au/, /ou/, /uo/, /ei/, /ye/, /ie/, /ia/, /ua/, /uə/, /iu/

Triphthongs

/iau/, /uai/, /iou/, /uei/

Tones

55, 35, 214, 51

Licit initial clusters

Ø

Licit finals

n

Licit syllabic templates

(C)V(n)

Source: Lee, Wai-Sum; and Eric Zee. 2003. Standard Chinese (Beijing). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 33.109–112.

Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)