Variety Chaozhou (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 ŋ ŋ̍
Stop p  b t  k  g ʔ
Sibilant affricate ts tsʰ
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s z
Non-sibilant fricative h
Approximant l j
Flap or tap
Trill
Lateral affricate
Lateral fricative
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 nasalized unrounded close front vowel urounded close back vowel ɯunrounded close back vowel ɿunrounded close with-friction back vowel nasalized rounded close back vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel nasalized unrounded close-mid front vowel orounded close-mid back vowel əunrounded mid central vowel nasalized unrounded open front vowel aunrounded open front vowel
Vowels

Other segments

                   
Other segments
 ³³ flat from-mid to-mid tone
 ⁴ short from-mid-high tone
 ⁵⁵ flat from-high to-high tone
 w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant
 ⁵³ falling from-high to-mid tone
 ¹¹ flat from-low to-low tone
 ²¹³ contour from-mid-low via-low to-mid tone
 ³⁵ rising from-mid to-high tone
 ai from unrounded open front to unrounded close front diphthong
 ²¹ falling from-mid-low to-low tone
 ou from rounded close-mid back to rounded close back diphthong
 au from unrounded open front to rounded close back diphthong
 õi from nasalized rounded close-mid back to unrounded close front diphthong
 oi from rounded close-mid back to unrounded close front diphthong
 əu from unrounded mid central to rounded close back diphthong
 õu from nasalized rounded close-mid back to rounded close back diphthong
 ũi from nasalized rounded close back to unrounded close front diphthong
 ãi from nasalized unrounded open front to unrounded close front diphthong
 ãu from nasalized unrounded open front to rounded close back diphthong
 ⁵² falling from-high to-mid-low tone