Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Sinitic

Lat/lon: 26.074508, 119.296494

ISO code: cdo

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	alveolar	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ	t, tʰ	k, kʰ	ʔ
fricative		s		h
affricate		ts, tsʰ
nasal	m	n	ŋ
lateral approximant		l

Vowels

Basic short series

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

Diphthongs

/ai/, /au/, /eu/, /ia/, /ie/, /iu/, /ua/, /uo/, /ui/, /yo/, /øy/

Triphthongs

/uai/

Tones

44, 51, 32, 21, 131, 13, 4

Licit initial clusters

Ø

Licit finals

ʔ, ŋ

Licit syllabic templates

(C)V(N)