Bai (nort2724-3)

Dialect: Luobenzhuo

Allen, Bryan. Bai dialect survey. 2007. sil16:48759

Consonants (43)

p b t d ʈʰ ʈ ɖ c k g q ʔ
tsʰ ts tʂʰ tɕʰ
f v s z ʂ ʐ ɕ x χ
m n ȵ ŋ ɴ̥ ɴ
j w
l

Vowels (24)

ꭒ̃
i y ɯ ɯ̃ u
ʊ ʊ̃
e o
ɛ ɛ̃ ɔ ɔ̃
æ æ̃ a

Diphthongs (2)

ao̯ ão̯

Syllabic consonants (1)

ɴ̩

Tones (7)

˥ ˦ ˦˨ ˧ ˧˥ ˧˩ ˨˩

Notes

The source also gives a phoneme /ɴ̥/, but the only examples of it are before ɴ̩, so this is probably an allophone of another consonant.

Velars and uvulars are apparently contrastive: ŋa˦ 'diligent', ɴa˨˩ 'sweat'.

Allophonic rules