Variety Lahu (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 ŋ
Stop pʰ p b tʰ t d k kʰ g qʰ q
Sibilant affricate tsʰ ts dz
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s z
Non-sibilant fricative f v x ɣ h
Approximant l
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 ɿunrounded close with-friction 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
 ³¹ falling from-mid to-low tone
 ³³ flat from-mid to-mid tone
 ⁵³ falling from-high to-mid tone
 ²¹ falling from-mid-low to-low tone
 ¹¹ flat from-low to-low tone
 ³⁵ rising from-mid to-high tone
 ⁵⁴ falling from-high to-mid-high tone