Variety Pumi (Qinghua) (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 ɲ
Stop p pʰ b t tʰ d kʰ g q qʰ ɢ
Sibilant affricate ts tsʰ dz tʃʰ tʃ dʒ ʈʂʰ ɖʐ
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s ʃ ʒ ʂ ʐ
Non-sibilant fricative x ɣ
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 yrounded close front vowel ĩnasalized unrounded close front vowel ɯunrounded close back vowel urounded close back vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel ørounded close-mid front vowel õnasalized rounded close-mid back vowel ɤunrounded close-mid back vowel orounded close-mid back vowel əunrounded mid central vowel ɛunrounded open-mid front vowel ɐunrounded near-open central vowel aunrounded open front vowel ãnasalized unrounded open front vowel ɑunrounded open back vowel
Vowels

Other segments

    
Other segments
 ⁵⁵ flat from-high to-high tone
 ¹³ rising from-low to-mid tone
 ³⁵ rising from-mid to-high tone
 w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant
 ɑu from unrounded open back to rounded close back diphthong