Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Lolo-Burmese

Lat/lon: 21.265694, 99.72393

ISO code: ahk

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	alveolar	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ, b	t, tʰ, d		k, kʰ, ɡ
fricative		s, sʰ, z		x, xʰ, ɣ	h
affricate		ts, tsʰ, dz
nasal	m, m̩	n	ɲ	ŋ
approximant			j

Short palatalised series

	bilabial	alveolar
stop	pʲ, pʲʰ, bʲ	tʲ, tʲʰ, dʲ
fricative		sʲ, sʲʰ
nasal	mʲ

Vowels

Short breathy voiced series

	front	central	back
close	i̤, y̤		ɯ̤, ṳ
close-mid	e̤, ø̤		o̤
mid		ə̤
open-mid	ɛ̤		ɔ̤
open		a̤

Short breathy voiced nasalised series

	central
open	ã̤

Short creaky voiced series

	front	central	back
close	ḭ, y̰		ɯ̰, ṵ
close-mid	ḛ, ø̰		o̰
mid		ə̰
open-mid	ɛ̰		ɔ̰
open		a̰

Tones

55, 33, 11

Licit syllabic templates

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