Phylum: Uralic

Genus: Finnic

Lat/lon: 57.7, 22.5

ISO code: liv

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-dental	alveolar	postalveolar	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, b		t̺, d̺		c, ɟ	k, g
trill			r
fricative		f, v	s̺, z̺	ʃ, ʒ			h
nasal	m		n̺		ɲ
approximant					j
lateral approximant			l̺		ʎ

Short palatalised series

	alveolar
trill	rʲ

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i	ɨ	u
near-close			ʊ̜
close-mid			o
open-mid	ɛ
near-open	æ
open			ɑ

Tones

341ʕ

Licit initial clusters

pr, br, t̺r, d̺r, kr, gr, s̺t̺r, z̺n̺, kn̺

Licit finals

p, t̺, tʲ, k, g, s̺, ʃ, v, m, n̺, nʲ, l̺, lʲ, r, rʲ, j, b̥, d̺̥, d̥ʲ, z̥, ʒ̊, g̊

Licit syllabic templates

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