EURPhon: Southern Pumi (Xinyingpan)

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Qiangic

Lat/lon: 27.164195, 100.921264

ISO code: pmj

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	labio-palatal	dental	alveolar	postalveolar	retroflex	palatal	velar
stop	b, p, pʰ, b˞, p˞, pʰ˞			d̪, t̪, t̪ʰ					g, k, kʰ, g˞, k˞, kʰ˞
fricative					z, s	ʒ, ʃ	ʐ, ʂ		ɣ, x
affricate					dz, ts, tsʰ	dʒ, tʃ, tʃʰ	ɖʐ, ʈʂ, ʈʂʰ
nasal	m, m̥			n̪, n̪̊
approximant		w	ɥ				ɻ, ɻ̊	j
lateral approximant				l̪, l̪̊

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i, y	ɨ, ʉ	u
close-mid	e		o
mid		ə
open-mid		ɜ
open		a	ɑ

Short nasalised series

	front	back
close	ĩ, ỹ
close-mid		õ
open		ɑ̃

Diphthongs

/ɜj/, /ɑw/

Tones

55, 15, 51

Licit initial clusters

Licit finals

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(G)V(G)

Source: Ding, Picus Sizhi. 2014. A Grammar of Prinmi: based on the central dialect of northwest Yunnan, China. Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library - languages of the greater Himalayan region 14. Boston, MA: Brill.

Comments: G — glide. Numerous rising diphtongs are posited (ju, wa, etc.) and even one triphthong, but they seem to look more like glide + vowel/diphthong combinations. The author treats them as syllable nuclei since that permits a more parsimonious description of verbal alternations, but the vowel inventory then blows up to 30+ segments.