Variety Qiandong, North (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  ŋ
Stop p  t  k  q  ʔ
Sibilant affricate ts tsʰ ʈʂ  tɕʰ
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative  s z ɕʰ ɕ ʑ
Non-sibilant fricative f  v ɣ h
Approximant l j
Flap or tap
Trill
Lateral affricate
Lateral fricative ɬʰ ɬ ɬʲ
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 urounded close back vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel orounded close-mid back vowel əunrounded mid central vowel ɛunrounded open-mid front vowel aunrounded open front vowel
Vowels

Other segments

         
Other segments
 ⁵⁵ flat from-high to-high tone
 ³³ flat from-mid to-mid tone
 ⁴⁴ flat from-mid-high to-mid-high tone
 ⁵³ falling from-high to-mid tone
 ³¹ falling from-mid to-low tone
 ¹³ rising from-low to-mid tone
 ¹¹ flat from-low to-low tone
 ³⁵ rising from-mid to-high tone
 ³ short from-mid tone
 ei from unrounded close-mid front to unrounded close front diphthong