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Kinnauri

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Indo-Aryan

Lat/lon: 31.563149, 78.418467

ISO code: kjo

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velardentalalveolarpostalveolarretroflexpalatalvelarglottal
stopp, pʰ, bt̪, t̪ʰ, d̪ʈ, ʈʰ, ɖk, kʰ, g
trillr
fricativesʃh
affricatets, tsʰ, dztʃ, tʃʰ, dʒ
nasalmnŋ
approximantwj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiu
near-closeɪʊ
close-mideo
midə
open-midɛɔ
opena

Short nasalised series

frontcentralback
close
near-closeɪ̃ʊ̃
close-mid
midə̃
open-midɛ̃ɔ̃
open

Licit initial clusters

C{r,j,w}

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(C)V(C)(C)

Source: Kumar, Ajesh; and Saramma Bezily. 2015. Kinnauri Pahari: phonemic summary. KMLSM & NLCI.

Comments: Some voiceless aspirated stops vary freely with fricatives, particularly in non-initial environments. /dz/ is mostly realized as /z/.

Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)