Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Lolo-Burmese

Lat/lon: 27.894, 102.264

ISO code: iii

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-dental	alveolar	postalveolar	retroflex	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	pʰ, p, b		tʰ, t, d					kʰ, k, g
fricative		f, v, v̩	s, z	ʃ, ʒ, ʒ̩	ʂ, ʐ	ɕ		x, ɣ	h
affricate			tsʰ, ts, dz	tʃʰ, tʃ, dʒ	ʈʂʰ, ʈʂ, ɖʐ	tɕʰ, tɕ, dʑ
lateral fricative			ɬ
nasal	m̥, m, m̩		n̥, n				ɲ̊, ɲ	ŋ
lateral approximant			l, l̩

Short pre-nasalised series

	bilabial	alveolar	postalveolar	retroflex	alveolo-palatal	velar
stop	ⁿb	ⁿd				ⁿg
affricate		ⁿdz	ⁿdʒ	ⁿɖʐ	ⁿdʑ

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i, y	ʉ	u, ɯ
close-mid	e, ø		o
open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
open		a

Apical vowels

/ɿ/, /ɿ̹/, /ɿˠ/, /ʅ/, /ʅ̹/

Diphthongs

/ie/, /iɛ/, /ia/, /io/, /iɔ/

Tones

55, 33, 31

Licit initial clusters

Ø

Licit finals

Ø

Licit syllabic templates

(C)V