Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Lolo-Burmese

Lat/lon: 25.800055, 98.856354

ISO code: lis

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	labio-dental	alveolar	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ, b			t, tʰ, d			k, kʰ, ɡ	ʔ
fricative			f	s, z	ɕ		x, ɣ	h
affricate				ts, tsʰ, dz	tɕ, tɕʰ, dʑ
nasal	m			n		ɲ	ŋ
approximant		w				j
lateral approximant				l

Short nasalised series

	glottal
fricative	h̃

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	back
close	i, y	ɯ, u
close-mid	e, ø	ɤ, o
open-mid	ɛ
open		ɑ

Apical vowels

/ʅ/

Tones

55, 35, 44, 33, 21, 21ʔ

Licit finals

Ø

Licit syllabic templates

C(G)V