Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Sinitic

Lat/lon: 29.992894, 120.587941

ISO code:

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	labio-palatal	labio-dental	alveolar	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ, b				t, tʰ, d			k, kʰ, g	ʔ
fricative				f, v	s, z	ɕ, ʑ			h, ɦ
affricate					ts, tsʰ, dz	tɕ, tɕʰ, dʑ
nasal	m, m̩				n, n̩			ŋ, ŋ̩
approximant		w	ɥ				j
lateral approximant					l, l̩

Vowels

Basic short series

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

Short nasalised series

	front	central
close-mid	ẽ	ɵ̃
open-mid	ɛ̃

Apical vowels

/ɿ/

Diphthongs

/ɑɒ/, /əɒ/

Tones

52, 35, 33, 5ʔ, 31, 13, 22, 3ʔ

Licit initial clusters

C{j, ɥ, w}

Licit finals

ŋ, ʔ

Licit syllabic templates

CV, CVC, CGV, CGVC, CGVV