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Khaling

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Kiranti

Lat/lon: 27.498096, 86.677595

ISO code: klr

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velaralveolarpalatalvelarglottal
stopp, pʰ, b, bʰt, tʰ, d, dʰk, kʰ, g, gʰʔ
trillr
fricativesçɦ
affricatets, tsʰ, dz, dzʰ
nasalmnŋ
approximantwj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiʉu
close-mideɵo
open-midɛʌ
opena

Long series

frontcentralback
closeʉː
close-midɵː
open-midɛː
open

Diphthongs

/oɔ/

Tones

55, 53, 33

Licit initial clusters

Cl/r

Licit finals

p, t, k, m, n, ŋ, r, l, s, j

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(l/r)V(C)

Source: Jacques, Guillaume. 2016. Tonogenesis and tonal alternations in Khaling. In Enrique L. Palancar and Jean Léo Léonard (eds.), Tone and Inflection, 41–66. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Comments: Low tone is not posited in the paper: tonal contrasts are neutralised on short and/or unstressed syllables, and the resulting neutral tone is encoded as 33 here.

Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)