Variety Bana (Hmong-Mien)

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 ˀŋ ŋ̍
Stop  p b t  ⁿt d  k g ʔ
Sibilant affricate ts tsʰ dz  tɕʰ
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s ɕ ʑ
Non-sibilant fricative f v h
Approximant l  j
Flap or tap
Trill
Lateral affricate  tɬʰ
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 yrounded close front vowel urounded close back vowel ɿunrounded close with-friction back vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel orounded close-mid back vowel nasalized rounded close-mid back vowel əunrounded mid central vowel ɔrounded open-mid back vowel aunrounded open front vowel
Vowels

Other segments

                
Other segments
 ⁴ short from-mid-high tone
 w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant
 ³¹³ contour from-mid via-low to-mid tone
 ¹³ rising from-low to-mid tone
 ³⁵ rising from-mid to-high tone
 ai from unrounded open front to unrounded close front diphthong
 ⁴⁴ flat from-mid-high to-mid-high tone
 ⁵⁵ flat from-high to-high tone
 ⁵³ falling from-high to-mid tone
 ²² flat from-mid-low to-mid-low tone
 au from unrounded open front to rounded close back diphthong
 ³¹ falling from-mid to-low tone
 ei from unrounded close-mid front to unrounded close front diphthong
 ³³ flat from-mid to-mid tone
 ³ short from-mid tone
 eu from unrounded close-mid front to rounded close back diphthong
 ²¹³ contour from-mid-low via-low to-mid tone