EURPhon: Solu Sherpa (Lukla)

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 27.686498, 86.730259

ISO code: xsr

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	alveolar	postalveolar	retroflex	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ, b		t, tʰ, d		ʈ, ʈʰ, ɖ	c, cʰ, ɟ	k, kʰ, g
trill			r, r̥
fricative			s, z	ʃ				h
affricate			ts, tsʰ	tʃ, tʃʰ, dʒ
nasal	m		n			ɲ	ŋ
approximant		w				j
lateral approximant			l, l̥

Vowels

Basic short series

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

Short breathy voiced series

	front	central	back
close	i̤		ṳ
close-mid	e̤		o̤
open		a̤	ɑ̤

Short nasalised series

	front
close	ĩ

Tones

51, 21

Licit initial clusters

Licit finals

w, m, n, ŋ, l, r, s, k, p

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(w)V(C)

Source: Kelly, Barbara. 2004. A grammar and glossary of the Sherpa language. Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal: Manange and Sherpa, ed. by Carol Genetti, 193–321. Pacific linguistics 557. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

Comments: Breathy voice is on its way out. /ĩ/ is found only in verbal forms. /s/ appears finally only in one word. ‘Voiced stops are prenasalised in word-initial position.’ Perhaps we ought to replace voiced series with a voiced-prenasalised one.