Phylum: Dravidian

Genus: Tamil-Tulu

Lat/lon: 8.5074, 76.973

ISO code: mal

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-dental	dental	alveolar	postalveolar	retroflex	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ, b, bʰ		t̪	t, tʰ, d, dʰ		ʈ, ʈʰ, ɖ, ɖʰ	c, cʰ, ɟ, ɟʰ	k, kʰ, g, gʰ
trill			r̪	r
fricative				s	ʃ	ʂ, ʐ			h
nasal	m		n̪	n		ɳ	ɲ	ŋ
approximant		ʋ					j
lateral approximant				l		ɭ

Vowels

Basic short series

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

Long series

	front	central	back
close	iː		uː
close-mid	eː		oː
open		aː

Diphthongs

/ai/, /ei/, /oi/, /au/

Licit initial clusters

CC

Licit finals

m, n, (ɳ, l, ɭ, r̪, r, j)

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(C)(C)V(C)