Variety Zao Min (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 ŋ̊ ŋ̍
Stop p b t d k g ʔ
Sibilant affricate ts
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
 ⁵³ falling from-high to-mid tone
 ai from unrounded open front to unrounded close front diphthong
 ⁴⁴ flat from-mid-high to-mid-high tone
 ⁴² falling from-mid-high to-mid-low tone
 au from unrounded open front to rounded close back diphthong
 ²² flat from-mid-low to-mid-low tone
 ²⁴ rising from-mid-low to-mid-high tone
 oi from rounded close-mid back to unrounded close front diphthong
 ²¹ falling from-mid-low to-low tone
 ui from rounded close back to unrounded close front diphthong
 ei from unrounded close-mid front to unrounded close front diphthong
 eu from unrounded close-mid front to rounded close back diphthong
 ⁰ short neutral tone