EURPhon: Rājbanshi

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Indo-Aryan

Lat/lon: 26.5, 87.8

ISO code: rjs

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	dental	alveolar	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, b, pʰ, bʱ		t̪, d̪, t̪ʰ, d̪ʱ	t̺, d̺, t̺ʰ, d̺ʱ		k, g, kʰ, gʱ
trill				r, rʱ
fricative				s			h
affricate				ts, dz, tsʰ, dzʱ
nasal	m, mʱ		n̪, n̪ʱ			ŋ, ŋʱ
approximant		w			j
lateral approximant				l, lʱ

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	back
close	i	u
close-mid	e	o
open-mid		ʌ
near-open	æ

Short nasalised series

	front
close-mid	ẽ
near-open	æ̃

Diphthongs

/ũĩ/

Licit initial clusters

gr, pr, d̪r, pj, gl, gj, sk

Licit syllabic templates

(C)V(C), grV(C), prV(C), d̪rV(C), pjV(C), glV(C), gjV(C), skV(C)

Source: Wilde, Christopher P. 2008. A sketch of the phonology and grammar of Rājbanshi. Helsinki: Helsinki University Print

Comments: Nasalization is barely phonemic but it occurs systematically in some pronouns and few other words (बाँस [bæ̃s] 'bamboo', घाँस [gʱæ̃s] 'grass', साँप [sæ̃p] 'serpent').