Bawm (bawm1236-1)

Namkung, Ju. Phonological Inventories of Tibeto-Burman Languages. 1996. hh:hld:Namkung:Tibeto-Burman

Consonants (25)

p b t d ʈʰ ʈ k {g} ʔ
tɬʰ
f v z ɕ
m n ŋ
h
l
r

Vowels (10)

ɪ ʊ
ɛ ɔ ɔː
a

Diphthongs (2)

i̯a u̯a

Tones (3)

˥ ˧ ˩

Notes

There are three tones only in the northern dialect - in the southern dialect, there are two, a "flat" tone and a "raised" tone.

/ia ua/ are accepted as diphthongs here because, unlike other diphthongs, they can be followed by final consonants other than the glottal stop.

Allophonic rules