EURPhon: dGudzong Tibetan

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 30.792712, 101.933506

ISO code:

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	alveolar	retroflex	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	pʰ, p, b		tʰ, t, d	ʈʰ, ʈ, ɖ		c, ɟ	kʰ, k, g	ʔ
trill			r
fricative	ɸ, β		sʰ, s, z	ʂʰ, ʂ, ʐ	ɕʰ, ɕ, ʑ		xʰ, x, ɣ	h, ɦ
affricate			tsʰ, ts, dz		tɕʰ, tɕ, dʑ
nasal	m, m̥		n, n̥			ɲ, ɲ̊	ŋ, ŋ̊
approximant		w				j
lateral approximant			l, l̥

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i	ʉ	ɯ, u
close-mid	e	ɵ	o
mid		ə
open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
open		a	ɑ

Long series

	front	central	back
close	iː	ʉː	ɯː, uː
close-mid	eː	ɵː	oː
mid		əː
open-mid	ɛː		ɔː
open		aː	ɑː

Short nasalised series

	front	central	back
close	ĩ	ʉ̃	ɯ̃, ũ
close-mid	ẽ	ɵ̃	õ
mid		ə̃
open-mid	ɛ̃		ɔ̃
open		ã	ɑ̃

Tones

55, 35, 132, 53

Licit initial clusters

hC, nC, ʔC, pC, ɸC, wC

Licit finals

p, ʔ, ɣ, r, w, wʔ, jʔ

Licit syllabic templates

CCw/jVCC

Source: Hiroyuki Suzuki. 2011. Phonetic Analysis of dGudzong Tibetan The Vernacular of Khams Tibetan spoken in the rGyalrong Area. Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology 35(4): 617–653.

Comments: There is a good distributional case for initial clusters to be considered single phonemes (cf. Sogpho Tibetan), which would blow up the inventory.