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Assamese (Standard)

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Indo-Aryan

Lat/lon: 26.1445169, 91.7362365

ISO code: asm

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velaralveolarpalatalvelar
stopp, b, pʰ, bʰt, d, tʰ, dʰk, g, kʰ, gʰ
trillr
fricatives, zx
nasalmnŋ
approximantwj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiu
close-mideo
open-midɛɔ
openaɒ

Short nasalised series

frontcentralback
close
close-mid
open-midɛ̃
open

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)

Source: Goswami, G.C.; and Jyoprakash Tamuli. 2003. Asamiya. The Indo-Aryan Languages, ed. by Dhanesh Jain and George Cardona, 391–443. Routledge.

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