Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Tibetic

Lat/lon: 29.266667, 88.883333

ISO code:

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	alveolar	retroflex	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, pʰ		t, tʰ			c, cʰ	k, kʰ
fricative			s	ʂ	ɕ			h
affricate			ts, tsʰ	ʈʂ, ʈʂʰ	tɕ, tɕʰ
lateral fricative			ɬ
nasal	m		n			ɲ	ŋ
approximant		w	ɹ			j
lateral approximant			l

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i
near-close			ʊ
close-mid	e
open-mid			ɔ
open		a

Long series

	front	central	back
close	iː, yː
near-close			ʊː
close-mid	eː
open-mid	œː		ɔː
open		aː

Long nasalised series

	front	central	back
close	ĩː, ỹː
near-close			ʊ̃ː
close-mid	ẽː
open-mid	œ̃ː		ɔ̃ː
open		ãː

Short nasalised series

	front	central	back
close	ĩ
near-close			ʊ̃
close-mid	ẽ
open-mid			ɔ̃
open		ã

Diphthongs

/ie/, /ea/, /oa/, /ĩẽ/, /õã/

Tones

55, 53, 22, 21

Licit initial clusters

Ø

Licit finals

p, m, r, k, ŋ

Licit syllabic templates

(C)V(C)