Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Sinitic

Lat/lon: 39.90403, 116.4075

ISO code: cmn

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	labio-dental	alveolar	postalveolar	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar
stop	p, pʰ			t, tʰ				k, kʰ
fricative			f	s	ʃ̺	ɕ		x
affricate				ts, tsʰ	tʃ̺, tʃ̺ʰ	tɕ, tɕʰ
nasal	m			n				ŋ
approximant		w		ɹ̺			j
lateral approximant				l

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i, y		u
close-mid			ɤ
mid		ə
open		a

Apical vowels

/ɿ/

Diphthongs

/ai/, /au/, /ou/, /uo/, /ei/, /ye/, /ie/, /ia/, /ua/, /uə/, /iu/

Triphthongs

/iau/, /uai/, /iou/, /uei/

Tones

55, 35, 214, 51

Licit initial clusters

Ø

Licit finals

n

Licit syllabic templates

(C)V(n)