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Walungge

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 27.79252, 87.835522

ISO code: ola

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velaralveolarretroflexalveolo-palatalpalatalvelarglottal
stopp, b, pʰt, d, tʰʈ, ɖ, ʈʰc, ɟ, cʰk, g, kʰ
trillr, r̥
fricativesɕh
affricatets, tsʰtɕ, tɕʰ
nasalmnɲŋ
approximantwj
lateral approximantl, l̥

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closei, yu
close-mide, øo
opena

Long series

frontcentralback
closeiː, yː
close-mideː, øː
open

Tones

11, 55

Licit initial clusters

Cw/j

Licit finals

p, t, k, m, n, ŋ, r

Licit syllabic templates

(C)Vː/C

Source: Bartram, Cathryn Virginia. 2011. An investigation of tone in Walungge. School of Oriental and African Studies. http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/download/pdf/9427212.pdf.

Comments: “Apart from suffixes (e.g. /3i/ ‘POSS’, which are not of themselves phonological words (see 5.4.1)), no words have be found with a short vowel nucleus and neither onset nor coda.” (p. 79)

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