Variety Tibetan (Lhasa) (Sino-Tibetan)

Form Concept Segments

Consonants

Pulmonic Consonants
Place → Labial Coronal Dorsal Laryngeal
↓ Manner Bilabial Labio­dental Linguo­labial Dental Alveolar Palato-
alveolar		 Retroflex Alveolo-
palatal		 Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal
/ Epiglottal		 Glottal
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Stop p pʰ t tʰ cʰ c kʰ k ʔ
Sibilant affricate tsʰ ts ʈʂʰ ʈʂ tɕ tɕʰ
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s ɕ
Non-sibilant fricative
Approximant l j
Flap or tap
Trill r
Lateral affricate
Lateral fricative ɬ
Lateral approximant
Lateral flap
Implosive

Vowels

Front Near-front Central Near-back Back Close Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open iunrounded close front vowel ĩnasalized unrounded close front vowel yrounded close front vowel urounded close back vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel ẽnasalized unrounded close-mid front vowel ørounded close-mid front vowel orounded close-mid back vowel ɛunrounded open-mid front vowel aunrounded open front vowel ãnasalized unrounded open front vowel ɑunrounded open back vowel
Vowels

Other segments

    
Other segments
 ¹³ rising from-low to-mid tone
 ⁵³ falling from-high to-mid tone
 ¹⁵ rising from-low to-high tone
 ⁵⁵ flat from-high to-high tone
 w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant