EURPhon: Khalong Tibetan

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 32.10872, 100.98728

ISO code:

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-dental	alveolar	postalveolar	retroflex	palatal	velar	uvular
stop	p, pʰ, b		t, tʰ, d			c, cʰ, ɟ	k, kʰ, ɡ	q, qʰ
trill			r
fricative		f	s	ʃ	ʂ		x	χ
affricate			ts, tsʰ	tʃ, tʃʰ, dʒ	ʈʂ, ʈʂʰ, ɖʐ
nasal	m, m̥		n, n̥			ɲ, ɲ̊	ŋ, ŋ̊
approximant						j
lateral approximant			l, l̥

Short pre-nasalised series

	bilabial	alveolar	postalveolar	retroflex	palatal	velar
stop	ⁿpʰ, ⁿb	ⁿtʰ, ⁿd			ⁿcʰ, ⁿɟ	ⁿkʰ, ⁿɡ
affricate		ⁿtsʰ, ⁿdz	ⁿtʃʰ, ⁿdʒ	ⁿɖʐ

Vowels

Basic short series

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

Licit finals

p,m, t, n, x, ŋ, χ, r, l

Licit syllabic templates

(С)(С)V(C)

Source: Sun, Jackson T.-S. 2007. Perfective stem renovation in Khalong Tibetan. In Bielmeier, Roland, and Felix Haller (eds.) Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 323–340.