EURPhon: Gurung (Western)

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: TGMT

Lat/lon: 28.333123, 83.935676

ISO code: gvr

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	dental	alveolar	postalveolar	retroflex	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ, b		t̪, t̪ʰ, d̪			ʈ, ʈʰ, ɖ		k, kʰ, g
tap				ɾ
fricative				s	ʃ				h
affricate				ts, tsʰ, dz	tʃ, tʃʰ, dʒ
nasal	m		n̪					ŋ
approximant		w					j
lateral approximant				l, l̥

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	back
close	i	u
open-mid	ɛ	ʌ, ɔ

Short nasalised series

	front	back
close	ĩ	ũ
open-mid	ɛ̃	ɔ̃

Long series

	front	back
open-mid	ɛː	ʌː, ɔː

Short breathy voiced series

	front	back
close	i̤	ṳ
open-mid	ɛ̤	ʌ̤, ɔ̤

Long breathy voiced series

	front	back
open-mid	ɛ̤ː	ʌ̤ː, ɔ̤ː

Tones

55, 33, 13ɦ, 11ɦ

Licit initial clusters

Сw/l/r/j

Source: Glover, Warren W. 1974. Sememic and Grammatical Structures in Gurung (Nepal). Summer Institute of Linguistics; Namkung, Ju. 1996. Phonological inventories of Tibeto-Burman languages. Berkley: Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus Project, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, University of California.