EURPhon: Byangsi

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Darma-Byangsi

Lat/lon: 30.103544, 80.836844

ISO code: bee

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	alveolar	postalveolar	retroflex	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ, b		t, tʰ, d		ʈ, ʈʰ, ɖ		k, kʰ, g
trill			r, r̥
fricative			s		ʂ			h
affricate				tʃ, tʃʰ, dʒ
nasal	m		n, n̥				ŋ
approximant		w				j
lateral approximant			l, l̥

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i		u
close-mid	e		o
open		a

Long series

	front	central	back
close	iː		uː
open		aː

Licit initial clusters

C{r,l,w,j}

Licit finals

p, t, ʈ, k, tʃ, dʒ, s, ʂ, h, m, n, ŋ, l, r

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(C)V(C)

Source: Trivedi, G.M. 1991. Descriptive grammar of Byansi, a Bhotiya language. Calcutta: Anthropoligical Survey of India, Govt. of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Dept. of Culture.

Comments: The diphthongs are not listed: “Byansi has three types of two vowel sequences in the medial and final position. It does not permit a vowel sequence in initial position. In all the vowel sequences the first one is a front vowel which forms the syllable peak, whereas the second one is back—u in most of the cases” (p. 9).