EURPhon: Melung Tibetan

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 27.179969, 99.293883

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			kʰ, k, g	ʔ
trill			r
fricative	ɸ		sʰ, s, z	ʂʰ, ʂ, ʐ	ɕʰ, ɕ, ʑ		xʰ, x, ɣ	h, ɦ
affricate			tsʰ, ts, dz	ʈʂʰ, ʈʂ, ɖʐ	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, ə˞
open-mid	ɛ, ɛ˞		ɔ, 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 syllabic templates

{h,n}C{w,j,r}VCʔ

Source: Hiroyuki Suzuki, Tshering mTshomo. 2009. Preliminary Analysis of the Phonological History of Melung Tibetan. Language and Linguistics 10.3:521-537.

Comments: Some other pre-initials are postulated as “etc.”. Finals are presented as “/ʔ/, /ŋ/, /r/, /wʔ/, etc.”.