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Koyi Rai

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Kiranti

Lat/lon: 27.392354, 86.887347

ISO code: kkt

Consonants

Basic short series

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

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiu
close-mideo
open-midɔ
opena

Diphthongs

/ai/, /ɔi/, /ui/

Licit initial clusters

C{j,w}

Licit finals

k, ŋ, n, p, m, ʔ, s, r, l

Licit syllabic templates

CGVC

Source: Aimée Lahaussois. Koyi Rai: An initial grammatical sketch. Himalayan Linguistics Archive 4. (2009) 1-33.

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