Phylum: Tai-Kadai

Genus: Kam-Sui

Lat/lon: 25.723088, 107.921698

ISO code: swi

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-dental	alveolar	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar	uvular	glottal
stop	p, pʰ		t, tʰ			k, kʰ, ɡ	q, qʰ, ɢ	ʔ
fricative		f, v	s, z	ɕ		x, ɣ	ʁ	h
affricate			ts, tsʰ	tɕ, tɕʰ
nasal	m̥, m		n̥, n		ɲ̊, ɲ	ŋ̊, ŋ
approximant					j
lateral approximant			l

Short pre-nasalised series

	bilabial	alveolar
stop	ⁿb	ⁿd

Short pre-glottalised series

	bilabial	labio-velar	alveolar	palatal	velar
stop	ʼb		ʼd		ʼɡ
fricative					ʼɣ
nasal	ʼm		ʼn	ʼɲ	ʼŋ
approximant		ʼw		ʼj

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i		u
close-mid	e		o
mid		ə
open		a

Long series

	central
open	aː

Diphthongs

/ai/, /aːi/, /oi/, /ui/, /au/, /aːu/, /eu/, /iu/

Tones

31, 41, 33, 42, 35, 323, 44, 43, 34

Licit initial clusters

pj, pʰj, bj, ʼbj, mj, fj, wj, tj, tʰj, dj, ʼdj, nj, ʼnj, n̥j, lj, tsj, tsʰj, sj, zj, kw, kʰw, ŋ̊w, ŋw

Licit finals

m, n, p, t, k

Licit syllabic templates

CV(C)