Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 27.825973, 99.707128

ISO code:

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	alveolar	retroflex	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ, b		t, tʰ, d				k, kʰ, g	ʔ
trill			r
fricative			s, z	ʂ, ʐ	ɕ, ʑ			h
affricate			ts, tsʰ, dz	ʈʂ, ʈʂʰ, ɖʐ	tɕ, tɕʰ, dʑ
lateral fricative			ɬ
nasal	m, m̥		n, n̥			ɲ, ɲ̊	ŋ
approximant		w				j
lateral approximant			l

Short pre-nasalised series

	bilabial	alveolar	retroflex	alveolo-palatal	velar
stop	ⁿb	ⁿd			ⁿg
affricate		ⁿdz	ⁿɖʐ	ⁿdʑ

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i, y		ɯ, u
close-mid	e		o
mid		ə
open-mid	ɛ
open		a

Diphthongs

/iə/, /ia/, /iu/, /yə/, /ya/, /ui/, /uə/, /ua/, /ei/

Tones

55, 13, 231, 51

Licit initial clusters

Ø

Licit finals

n

Licit syllabic templates

(C)V(C)