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gLo Tibetan

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 29.19537, 83.94885

ISO code: loy

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velaralveolarpostalveolarretroflexpalatalvelarglottal
stopp, pʰ, bt, tʰ, dʈ, ʈʰ, ɖk, kʰ, ɡʔ
trillr, r̥
fricatives, zʃçh, ɦ
affricatets, tsʰ, dztʃ, tʃʰ, dʒ
nasalmnɲŋ
approximantwj
lateral approximantl, l̥

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiʉu
close-mideɵo
near-openæ
opena

Tones

11, 55

Source: Nagano, Yasuhiko. 1982. A Historical Study of gLo Tibetan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology 7.472–513.

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