EURPhon: Sangdam Tibetan

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 27.813433, 97.249

ISO code:

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	alveolar	retroflex	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	pʰ, p, b		tʰ, t, d	ʈʰ, ʈ, ɖ			kʰ, k, g	ʔ
trill			r, r̥
fricative			sʰ, s, z	ʂ	ɕʰ, ɕ	çʰ, ç, ʝ	xʰ, x, ɣ	h, ɦ
affricate			tsʰ, ts, dz		tɕʰ, tɕ, dʑ	cçʰ, cç, ɟʝ
nasal	m, m̥		n, n̥				ŋ, ŋ̊
approximant		w				j	ɰ
lateral approximant			l, l̥

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i	ʉ	u, ɯ
close-mid	e	ɵ	o
mid		ə
open-mid	ɛ		ɔ, ʌ
near-open		ɐ
open		a	ɑ

Short creaky voiced series

	central
open	a̰

Tones

55, 35, 53, 353

Source: Suzuki, Hiroyuki. 2010. Creaky and pharyngealised vowels in Sangdam Tibetan (Kachin State). A paper given at the 5th Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages Symposium. SOAS, London.

Comments: The vowel inventory is highly spurious. Consonants seem more plausible. Tones are described as ‘high-level, rising, falling, rising-falling’.