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Shigatse Tibetan

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 29.266667, 88.883333

ISO code:

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velaralveolarretroflexalveolo-palatalpalatalvelarglottal
stopp, pʰt, tʰc, cʰk, kʰ
fricativesʂɕh
affricatets, tsʰʈʂ, ʈʂʰtɕ, tɕʰ
lateral fricativeɬ
nasalmnɲŋ
approximantwɹj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closei
near-closeʊ
close-mide
open-midɔ
opena

Long series

frontcentralback
closeiː, yː
near-closeʊː
close-mid
open-midœːɔː
open

Long nasalised series

frontcentralback
closeĩː, ỹː
near-closeʊ̃ː
close-midẽː
open-midœ̃ːɔ̃ː
openãː

Short nasalised series

frontcentralback
close
near-closeʊ̃
close-mid
open-midɔ̃
open

Diphthongs

/ie/, /ea/, /oa/, /ĩẽ/, /õã/

Tones

55, 53, 22, 21

Licit initial clusters

Ø

Licit finals

p, m, r, k, ŋ

Licit syllabic templates

(C)V(C)

Source: Haller, Felix. 2000. Dialekt und Erzählungen von Shigatse. Beiträge zur tibetischen Erzählforschung Bd. 13. Bonn: VGH Wissenschaftsverlag.

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