Variety Meixian (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 ȵ ŋ ŋ̍
Stop p   t k 
Sibilant affricate tsʰ ts
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s
Non-sibilant fricative f v 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 ɿunrounded close with-friction back vowel urounded close back vowel ɪunrounded near-close near-front vowel orounded close-mid back vowel əunrounded mid central vowel ɛunrounded open-mid front vowel ɔrounded open-mid back vowel aunrounded open front vowel
Vowels

Other segments

              
Other segments
 ¹² rising from-low to-mid-low tone
 ⁴⁴ flat from-mid-high to-mid-high tone
 ⁴ short from-mid-high tone
 ai from unrounded open front to unrounded close front diphthong
 ⁴² falling from-mid-high to-mid-low tone
 ɛu from unrounded open-mid front to rounded close back diphthong
 ³¹ falling from-mid to-low tone
 ²¹ falling from-mid-low to-low tone
 ⁰ short neutral tone
 ɔi from rounded open-mid back to unrounded close front diphthong
 w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant
 au from unrounded open front to rounded close back diphthong
 iu from unrounded close front to rounded close back diphthong
 ɛa from unrounded open-mid front to unrounded open front diphthong
 ²⁴ rising from-mid-low to-mid-high tone