EURPhon: Manange

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: TGMT

Lat/lon: 28.667231, 84.01877

ISO code: nmm

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	dental	alveolar	postalveolar	retroflex	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	pʰ, p	t̪ʰ, t̪			ʈʰ, ʈ		kʰ, k	ʔ
tap			ɾ
fricative			s	ʃ	ʂ			h
affricate			tsʰ, ts	tʃʰ, tʃ
nasal	m		n			ɲ	ŋ
approximant						j
lateral approximant			l

Short labialised series

	bilabial	velar
stop	pʰʷ, pʷ	kʰʷ, kʷ
nasal	mʷ	ŋʷ

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	back
close	i	u
close-mid	e	o
open-mid		ʌ
open		ɑ

Short nasalised series

	front	back
close	ĩ	ũ
close-mid	ẽ	õ
open		ɑ̃

Tones

42, 52, 44, 22

Licit initial clusters

Cj/l/ɾ

Licit finals

m, n, ŋ, ɾ, l, p, k, ʔ

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(j/l/ɾ)V(C)

Source: Hildebrandt, Kristine A. 2003. Manange Tone: Scenarios of Retention and Loss in Two Communities. UC Santa-Barbara; Hildebrandt, Kristine A. 2004. A grammar and glossary of the Manange language. Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal: Manange and Sherpa, ed. by Carol Genetti, 1–189. Pacific linguistics 557. Canberra: The Australian National University; Hildebrandt, Kristine A. 2005. A Phonetic Analysis of Manange Segmental and Suprasegmental Properties. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 28.1–36.

Comments: Based on my field data, /kj/ clusters seem in reality to be palatalised segments (/kʲ/). A re-evalution is in order.