Variety Zao Min (Hmong-Mien)

Form Concept Segments

Segments are color-coded by frequency in the wordlist:

0-34  -68  -102  -136  -170  -204  -238  -272  -306  -339
          

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 m̥ n ȵ ŋ ŋ̊ ŋ̍
Stop p b t d k g ʔ
Sibilant affricate ts tɕ
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s ɕ ʑ
Non-sibilant fricative f v h
Approximant l j
Flap or tap
Trill
Lateral affricate
Lateral fricative ɬ
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 ɔrounded open-mid back vowel aunrounded open front vowel
Vowels

Other segments

            
Other segments
 ⁴⁴ flat from-mid-high to-mid-high tone
 ⁵³ falling from-high to-mid tone
 ²⁴ rising from-mid-low to-mid-high tone
 ⁴² falling from-mid-high to-mid-low tone
 ²² flat from-mid-low to-mid-low tone
 ai from unrounded open front to unrounded close front diphthong
 au from unrounded open front to rounded close back diphthong
 ui from rounded close back to unrounded close front diphthong
 eu from unrounded close-mid front to rounded close back diphthong
 oi from rounded close-mid back to unrounded close front diphthong
 ei from unrounded close-mid front to unrounded close front diphthong
 ²¹ falling from-mid-low to-low tone
 ⁰ short neutral tone