EURPhon: Drokpa Tibetan (Zhongba)

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 29.77, 84.031389

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	ʔ
trill				r, r̥
fricative				s		ɕ			h
affricate				ts, tsʰ		tɕ, tɕʰ
nasal	m, m̥		n̪				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
open		a

Long series

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

Tones

55, 11

Licit initial clusters

Licit finals

p, k, ʔ, m, n, ŋ, l, r

Licit syllabic templates

(C)V(C)

Source: Kretschmar, Monika. 1986. Erzählungen und Dialekt der Drokpas aus Südwest-Tibet. Beiträge zur tibetischen Erzählforschung 8. Sankt Augustin: VGH Wissenschaftsverlag.