EURPhon: Lithuanian (North Samogitian)

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Baltic

Lat/lon: 55.98, 22.25

ISO code: lit

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-dental	dental	alveolar	postalveolar	palatal	velar
stop	p, b		t̪, d̪				k, ɡ
trill				r
fricative		f, v	s̪, z̪		ʃ, ʒ		x, ɣ
affricate			t̪s̪, d̪z̪		tʃ, dʒ
nasal	m		n̪
approximant						j

Short palatalised series

	bilabial	labio-dental	alveolar	postalveolar	velar
stop	pʲ, bʲ		tʲ, dʲ		kʲ, ɡʲ
trill			rʲ
fricative		fʲ, vʲ	sʲ, zʲ	ʃʲ, ʒʲ	xʲ, ɣʲ
affricate			tsʲ, dzʲ	tʃʲ, dʒʲ
nasal	mʲ		nʲ
lateral approximant			lʲ

Short velarised series

	alveolar
lateral approximant	ɫ

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i		u
near-close	ɪ̯		ʊ̯
close-mid	e		o
open-mid	ɛ
near-open		ɐ

Long series

	front	central	back
close	iː		uː
near-open	æː
open		äː

Diphthongs

/iɛ/, /uɔ/

Source: Balode, Laimute; Holvoet, Axel. 2001. The Lithuanian language and its dialects. Circum-Baltic Languages. Volume I: Past and Present, 41–79. John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam; Philadelphia.