<<< Home page

Nepali

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Indo-Aryan

Lat/lon: 28.0, 84.633333

ISO code: npi

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velardentalalveolarretroflexpalatalvelarglottal
stopp, pʰ, b, bʰt̪, t̪ʰ, d̪, d̪ʰʈ, ʈʰ, ɖ, ɖʰc, cʰ, ɟ, ɟʰk, kʰ, g, gʰ
trillr
fricativesh
nasalmŋ
approximantwj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiu
close-mideo
midə
opena

Short nasalised series

frontcentralback
close
close-mid
midə̃
open

Diphthongs

/əi/, /əĩ/, /əu/, /əũ/

Source: Riccardi, Theodore. 2003. Nepali. The Indo-Aryan Languages, ed. by Dhanesh Jain and George Cardona, 538–580. Routledge.

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