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Yolmo

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 28.031738, 85.531783

ISO code: scp

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velaralveolarretroflexalveolo-palatalpalatalvelarglottal
stopp, pʰ, bt, tʰ, dʈ, ʈʰ, ɖc, cʰ, ɟk, kʰ, g
fricatives, zɕ, ʑh
affricatets, tsʰ, dztɕ, tɕʰ, dʑ
nasalmnɲŋ
approximantwɹ̥, ɹj
lateral approximantl̥, l

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiu
close-mide
open-midɔ
opena

Long series

frontcentralback
close
close-mid
open-midɔː
open

Tones

55, 11

Licit initial clusters

Cw/r/j

Licit finals

p, k, m, n, ŋ, l, ɹ

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(C)V(C)

Source: Gawne, Lauren. 2013. Lamjung Yolmo copulas in use: evidentiality, reported speech and questions. University of Melbourne.

Comments: The data were collected in Lamjung, but the coordinates are given for Helambu area from where the Yolmo immigrated to Lamjung district about 100 years ago.

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