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 p pʰ b b̤         *t *tʰ *d *d̤             k kʰ ɡ ɡʱ    
 
 
 
 
  
 
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             *ts *tsʰ *dz *ts̤                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
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   m m̤           *n *n̤                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
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                                               ɦ
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             *s                      
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
       *l *l̤                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Selected languages: Newari
UPSID number: 2518
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: Sino-Tibetan, Himalayic
The languages has 32 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds: [pʰ] [p] [b̤] [b] [*tʰ] [*t] [*d̤] [*d] [kʰ] [k] [ɡʱ] [ɡ] [*s] [*tsʰ] [*ts] [*ts̤] [*dz] [*l̤] [*l] [m̤] [m] [*n̤] [*n] [ĩ] [ũ] [ɤ̞̃] [ã] [i] [u] [ɤ̞] [a] [ɦ]
Comments:

Kathmandu dialect. Newari is spoken in the
Kathmandu valley of Nepal. The reduced vowel inventory
proposed by Hale and Hale (1969) has been accepted.
Surface vowels of other qualities result from coalescence
in vowel sequences. /i, u/ are desyllabified before low
vowels, and merge elsewhere.
Sources:

Hale, A. and Hale, M. 1969. Newari Phonemic Summary.
Tibeto-Burman Phonemic Summaries V. SIL, Tribhuvan
University, Kirtipur.

Manandhar, T.L. 1986. Newari-English Dictionary: Modern
language of Kathmandu valley. (Anne Vergati, editor) Agam
Kala Prakashan, Delhi.