Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Lolo-Burmese

Lat/lon: 16.780833, 96.149722

ISO code: mya

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	dental	alveolar	postalveolar	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ, b			t, tʰ, d			k, kʰ, g	ʔ
fricative			θ, ð	s, sʰ, z	ʃ			h
affricate					tʃ, tʃʰ, dʒ
lateral fricative				ɬ
nasal	m̥, m			n̥, n		ɲ̊, ɲ	ŋ̊, ŋ
approximant		w, ʍ				j
lateral approximant				l

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i		u
near-close	ɪ		ʊ
close-mid	e		o
mid		ə
open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
open		a

Short nasalised series

	front	central	back
near-close	ɪ̃		ʊ̃
open		ã

Diphthongs

/eɪ/, /eɪ̃/, /aɪ/, /aɪ̃/, /aʊ/, /aʊ̃/, /oʊ/, /oʊ̃/

Tones

11, 55, 51ʕ, 51ʔ

Licit initial clusters

Ø

Licit finals

ʔ

Licit syllabic templates

CVʔ