Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Lolo-Burmese

Lat/lon: 22.489616, 99.920917

ISO code: lhu

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-dental	alveolar	postalveolar	palatal	velar	uvular
stop	p, pʰ, b		t, tʰ, d			k, kʰ, ɡ	q, qʰ
fricative		f, v		ʃ		x, ɣ
affricate				tʃ, tʃʰ, dʒ
nasal	m		n			ŋ
approximant					j
lateral approximant			l

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i	ɨ	u
close-mid	e		o
mid		ə
open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
open		a

Diphthongs

/aj/, /aw/, /ew/, /əw/, /ɔw/, /əj/, /ɨj/, /ij/, /ɨɛ/, /wi/, /we/, /wɛ/, /wa/

Tones

33, 35, 53, 21, 11, 54ʔ, 21ʔ

Licit initial clusters

Ø

Licit finals

ʔ

Licit syllabic templates

(C)V(ʔ)