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Brag-g.yab Tibetan

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 30.60375, 97.797947

ISO code: khg

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velaralveolarretroflexalveolo-palatalpalatalvelarglottal
stopp, pʰ, bt, tʰ, dʈ, ʈʰ, ɖc, cʰ, ɟk, kʰ, g
trillr
fricatives, zɕ, ʑh
affricatets, tsʰ, dztɕ, tɕʰ, dʑ
nasalmnɳŋ
approximantwj
lateral approximantl, l̥

Short pre-nasalised series

alveolarretroflexvelar
stopⁿdⁿɖⁿg
affricateⁿtsʰ, ⁿdz

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closey
near-closeɪʊ
open-midɛ, œɔ
opena

Long series

frontcentralback
closeiː, yː
close-mideː, øː
open-midɛːɔː
open

Long nasalised series

frontcentralback
near-closeʊ̃ː
open-midɛ̃ː, œ̃ːɔ̜̃ː
openãː

Tones

55, 11ɦ

Licit initial clusters

Ø

Licit finals

p, k, m, n, ɳ, l, r

Licit syllabic templates

(C)V(C)

Source: Schwieger, Peter. 1989. Tibetisches Erzählgut aus Brag-g.yab: Texte mit Übersetzungen, grammatischem Abriss und Glossar. Beiträge zur tibetischen Erzählforschung 10. Bonn: VGH Wissenschaftsverlag.

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