Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 28.649822, 87.126966

ISO code:

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	dental	alveolar	retroflex	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ		t̪, t̪ʰ		ʈ, ʈʰ		c, cʰ	k, kʰ
trill				r
fricative				s		ɕ			h
affricate				ts, tsʰ		tɕ, tɕʰ
nasal	m, m̥			n			ɲ	ŋ
approximant		w					j
lateral approximant				l, l̥

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
near-close	ɪ		ʊ
mid		ə
open-mid			ɔ
near-open	æ
open		a

Long series

	front	central	back
close	iː, yː		uː
close-mid	eː, øː		oː
open-mid	ɛː
open		aː

Tones

33, 31, 55, 53

Licit initial clusters

Ø

Licit finals

p, m, n, l, k, ŋ

Licit syllabic templates

(C)V(C)