EURPhon: Yongning Na (Mosuo)

Yongning Na (Mosuo)

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Naxi

Lat/lon: 27.76122, 100.66282

ISO code: nru

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	labio-dental	alveolar	retroflex	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar	uvular	glottal
stop	pʰ, p, b			tʰ, t, d				kʰ, k, ɡ	qʰ, q, ɢ
fricative			f	s, z	ʂ, ʐ	ɕ, ʑ		ɣ		h
affricate				tsʰ, ts, dz	ʈʂʰ, ʈʂ, ɖʐ	tɕʰ, tɕ, dʑ
nasal	m			n			ɲ
approximant		w					j
lateral approximant				l̥, l

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	back
close	i	ɯ, ɯ̝, u
close-mid		ɤ
open-mid	ɛ	ɔ
near-open	æ
open		ɑ

Short nasalised series

	front
near-open	æ̃

Tones

55, 33, 31, 13

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(G)V

Source: Lidz, Liberty A. 2010. A descriptive grammar of Yongning Na (Mosuo). Ph.D. Thesis. University of Texas at Austin.

Comments: Automatic glottal stop in case of a null onset.

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