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Labrang Tibetan

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 35.204, 102.52

ISO code:

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velaralveolarretroflexalveolo-palatalpalatalvelarglottal
stopp, pʰ, bt, tʰ, dk, kʰ, g
trillr
fricatives, sʰ, zʂɕ, ɕʰ, ʑx, xʰ, ɣh
affricatets, tsʰ, dzʈʂ, ʈʂʰ, ɖʐtɕ, tɕʰ, dʑ
nasalmnɲŋ
approximantwj
lateral approximantl, l̥

Short pre-nasalised series

bilabialalveolarretroflexalveolo-palatalvelar
stopⁿbⁿdⁿg
affricateⁿdzⁿɖʐⁿdʑ

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiu
close-mideo
midə
opena

Licit finals

p, l, k, x, m, n, ŋ, r

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(C)V(C)

Source: Makley, Charlene; Keith Dede; Hua Kan; and Wang Qingshan. 1999. The Amdo Dialect of Labrang. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 22.97–127.

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