Variety Bai (Dali) (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 ɲ ŋ
Stop p pʰ t tʰ k kʰ
Sibilant affricate ts tsʰ tɕ tɕʰ
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s ɕ
Non-sibilant fricative f v x ɣ
Approximant l ɹ 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 ɯunrounded close back vowel urounded close back vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel e˞rhotacized unrounded close-mid front vowel orounded close-mid back vowel ɑunrounded open back vowel
Vowels

Other segments

        
Other segments
 ³¹ falling from-mid to-low tone
 ⁵⁵ flat from-high to-high tone
 ⁴⁴ flat from-mid-high to-mid-high tone
 ²¹ falling from-mid-low to-low tone
 ³³ flat from-mid to-mid tone
 ³⁵ rising from-mid to-high tone
 ⁵³ falling from-high to-mid tone
 w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant
 ⁴² falling from-mid-high to-mid-low tone