EURPhon: Kati

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Indo-Aryan

Lat/lon: 35.341, 70.464

ISO code: bsh

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-dental	alveolar	postalveolar	retroflex	palatal	velar
stop	p, b		t, d		ʈ, ɖ		k, g
trill			r
fricative			s, z	ʃ	ʂ, ʐ
affricate			ts, dz	tʃ, dʒ	ʈʂ
nasal	m		n		ɳ	ɲ	ŋ
approximant		ʋ			ɻ	j
lateral approximant			l

Short palatalised series

	bilabial	labio-dental	alveolar	retroflex	velar
stop	pʲ, bʲ		tʲ, dʲ	ʈʲ, ɖʲ	kʲ, gʲ
trill			rʲ
fricative			sʲ, zʲ	ʂʲ, ʐʲ
affricate			tsʲ
nasal	mʲ		nʲ	ɳʲ
approximant		ʋʲ		ɻʲ
lateral approximant			lʲ

Short labialised series

	alveolar	postalveolar	retroflex
fricative			ʂʷ, ʐʷ
affricate	tsʷ	tʃʷ	ʈʂʷ

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i	ɨ	u
open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
open		a

Long series

	central
open	aː

Diphthongs

/ej/

Source: Грюнберг, Александр. 1980. Языки Восточного Гиндукуша. Язык Кати. Тексты. Грамматический очерк. Наука: Москва.

Comments: The ʲ diacritic denotes both palatalisation and "iotation" (appearance of [j] in front of the next vowel). Retroflex consonants consistently show iotation; other segments vary.