EURPhon: Shina (Gilgit)

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Indo-Aryan

Lat/lon: 35.916112, 74.314293

ISO code: scl

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
tap					ɽ
fricative			s, z	ʃ	ʂ, ʐ			h
affricate			ts, tsʰ	tʃ, tʃʰ, dʒ	ʈʂ, ʈʂʰ
nasal	m		n		ɳ		ŋ
approximant		w				j
lateral approximant			l

Vowels

Basic short series

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

Long series

	front	central	back
close	iː		uː
close-mid	eː		oː
open		aː

Short nasalised series

	front	central	back
close	ĩ		ũ
close-mid			õ
open		ã

Long nasalised series

	front	central	back
close	ĩː		ũː
close-mid	ẽː		õː
open		ãː

Source: Bashir, Elena. 2007. Dardic. The Indo-Aryan languages, ed. by George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain, 818–894. Routledge language family series. London: Routledge; Radloff, Carla F. 1999. Aspects of the Sound System of Gilgiti Shina. Islamabad: National Institute of Pakistan Studies; Quaid-i-Azam University; SIL.

Comments: Shina has a pitch accent system distinguishing between rising and falling accents on long vowels.