Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Sinitic

Lat/lon: 37.866667, 112.55

ISO code: cjy

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-dental	alveolar	alveolo-palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ		t, tʰ		k, kʰ	ʔ
fricative		f, v	s, z	ɕ	x, ɣ
affricate			ts, tsʰ	tɕ, tɕʰ
nasal	m		n		ŋ
lateral approximant			l

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i, y		u
close-mid			ɤ
open		a

Short nasalised series

	front	central
near-open	æ̃	ɐ̃

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)