Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 27.311, 88.469

ISO code: sip

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	alveolar	retroflex	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ		t, tʰ	ʈ, ʈʰ			k, kʰ	ʔ
trill			r, r̥
fricative			s, z		ɕ, ʑ			h
affricate			ts, tsʰ		tɕ, tɕʰ
nasal	m		n, n̥			ɲ, ɲ̊	ŋ, ŋ̊
approximant		w				j
lateral approximant			l, l̥

Short pre-nasalised series

	bilabial	alveolar	retroflex	alveolo-palatal	velar
stop	ⁿb	ⁿd	ⁿɖ		ⁿg
affricate		ⁿdz		ⁿdʑ

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i, y		u
close-mid	e, ø		o
open-mid	ɛ
open		a

Long series

	front	central	back
close	iː, yː		uː
close-mid	eː, øː		oː
open-mid	ɛː
open		aː

Long nasalised series

	front	central	back
close	ĩː, ỹː		ũː
close-mid	ẽː, ø̃ː		õː
open-mid	ɛ̃ː
open		ãː

Diphthongs

/iu/, /ɐu/, /ou/, /ɐi/

Tones

55, 51, 13

Licit finals

p, k, ʔ, m, ŋ

Licit syllabic templates

(С)(С)V(C)