EURPhon: Soghpo Tibetan

Consonants

Basic short series

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

Short pre-aspirated series

	bilabial	alveolar	retroflex	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar
stop	ʰp, ʱb	ʰt, ʱd	ʰʈ, ʱɖ		ʰc, ʱɟ	ʰk, ʱɡ
fricative		ʱz	ʱʐ
affricate		ʱdz		ʱdʑ
nasal	ʱm	ʱn			ʱɲ	ʱŋ
approximant					ʱj
lateral approximant		ʰl̥, ʱl

Short pre-nasalised series

	bilabial	alveolar	retroflex	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar
stop	ⁿpʰ, ⁿb	ⁿtʰ, ⁿd	ⁿʈʰ, ⁿɖ		ⁿcʰ, ⁿɟ	ⁿkʰ, ⁿɡ
fricative		ⁿsʰ				ⁿxʰ
affricate		ⁿtsʰ, ⁿdz		ⁿtɕʰ, ⁿdʑ

Short pre-aspirated pre-labialised series

	alveolar	retroflex	alveolo-palatal	velar
stop	ʰʷt	ʰʷʈ		ʰʷk
fricative	ʰʷs, ʰʷsʰ	ʰʷʂʰ	ʰʷɕʰ
affricate	ʰʷts		ʰʷtɕ

Short pre-labialised series

	bilabial	alveolar	retroflex	alveolo-palatal	palatal
stop		ʷd			ʷɟ
fricative		ʷz	ʷʐ	ʷʑ
nasal	ʷm
lateral approximant		ʷl

Vowels

Basic short series

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

Long series

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

Short nasalised series

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

Tones

55, 35, 132, 11, 53

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(G)V(C)

Source: Suzuki, Hiroyuki. 2011. Dialectal particularities of Sogpho Tibetan – an introduction to the “Twenty-four villages’ patois.” In Turin, Mark; and Bettina Zeisler. 2011. Himalayan Languages and Linguistics: Studies in Phonology, Semantics, Morphology and Syntax, 55–73.