EURPhon: Myeik Burmese

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Lolo-Burmese

Lat/lon: 12.446679, 98.611731

ISO code: tvn

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	dental	alveolar	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ, b		t̪	t, tʰ, d			k, kʰ, g	ʔ
fricative				s, sʰ, z	ɕ			h, ɦ
affricate					tɕ, tɕʰ, dʑ
nasal	m			n		ɲ	ŋ
approximant		w				j
lateral approximant				l

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	back
close	i	u
close-mid	e	o
open-mid	ɛ	ɔ
open		ɑ

Short nasalised series

	front	back
near-close	ɪ̃	ʊ̃
near-open	æ̃

Short creaky voiced series

	front	back
near-close	ɪ̰	ʊ̰
near-open	æ̰

Diphthongs

/eɪ̃/, /aɪ̃/, /aɯ̃/, /əɯ̃/, /ḛɪ̰/, /a̰ɪ̰/, /a̰ɯ̰/, /ə̰ɯ̰/

Tones

11, 55, 14

Licit initial clusters

Cw/j

Licit finals

Licit syllabic templates

C(w/j)V

Source: Kato, Atsuhiko; and Pale Khin. 2012. The Myeik (Beik) Dialect of Burmese: Sounds, Conversational Texts, and Basic Vocabulary. アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究.117–160.

Comments: Rising tone entails pharyngealisation (except with glottalised vowels). Glottalised vowels always have the rising tone.