EURPhon: Thebo Tibetan (G-yi.ba)

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 34.135552, 103.144813

ISO code: cda

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	labio-dental	alveolar	postalveolar	retroflex	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ			t, tʰ, d				k, kʰ, g	ʔ
trill				r
fricative				s, sʰ, z	ʃ, ʃʰ, ʒ			x, xʰ, ɣ
affricate				ts, tsʰ, dz	tʃ, tʃʰ, dʒ	ʈʂ, ʈʂʰ, ɖʐ
nasal	m			n			ɲ	ŋ
approximant		w	ʋ				j
lateral approximant				l, l̥

Short pre-nasalised series

	bilabial	alveolar	postalveolar	retroflex	velar
stop	ⁿb	ⁿd			ⁿg
affricate		ⁿdz	ⁿdʒ	ⁿɖʐ

Vowels

Basic short series

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

Long series

	front	back
close	iː	uː
near-close		ʊː
close-mid	eː	oː
open		ɑː

Long nasalised series

	front	back
close	ĩː	ũː
close-mid	ẽː	õː
open-mid	ɛ̃ː
open		ɑ̃ː

Diphthongs

/uo/, /oə/, /jɛ/, /jɛː/

Tones

51, 33, 44, 24

Licit initial clusters

Licit finals

Licit syllabic templates

(C)V(C)

Source: Lin, You-Jing. 2014. Thebo. Phonological Profiles of Little-Studied Tibetic Varieties, ed. by Jackson T.-S. Sun, 211–263. Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 55. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.

Comments: The nearby Tshong.ru variety also has three voiceless prenasalised consonants, but only in a word-medial position. Tones 51 and 33 on short vowels can be thought of as corresponding to 44 and 24 on long vowels.