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Jin

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Sinitic

Lat/lon: 37.866667, 112.55

ISO code: cjy

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-dentalalveolaralveolo-palatalvelarglottal
stopp, pʰt, tʰk, kʰʔ
fricativef, vs, zɕx, ɣ
affricatets, tsʰtɕ, tɕʰ
nasalmnŋ
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closei, yu
close-midɤ
opena

Short nasalised series

frontcentral
near-openæ̃ɐ̃

Apical vowels

/ɿ/

Diphthongs

/ia/, /ua/, /uɤ/, /ie/, /ye/, /ai/, /ei/, /au/, /əu/, /uæ̃/, /iɐ̃/, /uɐ̃/

Triphthongs

/uai/, /uei/, /iau/, /iəu/

Tones

11, 53, 45, 2ʔ, 54ʔ

Licit initial clusters

Ø

Licit finals

ŋ, ʔ

Licit syllabic templates

(C)V(C)

Source: Shěn, Míng. 1994. Tàiyuán fāngyán cídiǎn 太原方言詞典 [A dictionary of the Taiyuan dialect]. Nanjing: Jiāngsū Jiāoyù Chūbǎnshè.

Contributed by: Pui Yiu Szeto (pyszeto@gmail.com)