EURPhon: Tofa

Phylum: Turkic

Genus: Sayan

Lat/lon: 53.64, 98.21

ISO code: kim

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-dental	alveolar	postalveolar	palatal	velar	uvular	pharyngeal	glottal
stop	b̥		d̥			g̊	ɢ̥		ʔ
trill			r				ʀ
fricative		v	z̥	ʒ̊		ɣ		ħ
affricate					ɟ̥ʝ̥
nasal	m		n		ɲ	ŋ
approximant					j
lateral approximant			l

Long series

	bilabial	alveolar	postalveolar	palatal	velar	uvular
stop	pːʰ	tː			kː	qː
fricative		sː	ʃː
affricate				cçː

Short nasalised series

	palatal
approximant	j̃

Short nasalised palatalised series

	pharyngeal
fricative	ħ̃ʲ

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i	ɨ̞, ʉ	u
near-close	ɪ
open-mid	ɛ	ɞ̜	ɔ̟̜
open		a

Short creaky voiced series

	front	central	back
close	ḭ	ɨ̞̰, ʉ̰	ṵ
near-close	ɪ̰
open-mid	ɛ̰	ɞ̜̰	ɔ̟̜̰
open		a̰

Long series

	front	central	back
close	iː	ɨ̞ː, ʉː	uː
near-close	ɪː
open-mid		ɞ̜ː	ɔ̟̜ː
near-open	æː
open		aː

Long nasalised series

	front	central	back
close	ĩː	ɨ̞̃ː, ʉ̃ː	ũː
near-close	ɪ̃ː
open-mid	ɛ̃ː	ɞ̜̃ː	ɔ̟̜̃ː
open		ãː

Diphthongs

/ɛ̃ːi̯/, /ãɛ̃/, /œ̃ɛ̃/

Source: Рассадин, В.И. 1971. Фонетика и лексика тофаларского языка. Улан-Удэ: Бурятское книжное издательство

Comments: /ɪ/, /ɪ̰/, /ɪː/ seem to be phonemic (they are said to be allophones of the corresponding high phonemes triggered, among others, by preceding plain labials as opposed to 'palatalized' labials, which are themselves not phonemic).