Variety Guiyang (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 ŋ
Stop p   t k 
Sibilant affricate tsʰ ts  tɕʰ
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s z ɕ
Non-sibilant fricative f x
Approximant l 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 urounded close back vowel ɿunrounded close with-friction back vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel orounded close-mid back vowel əunrounded mid central vowel ə˞rhotacized unrounded mid central vowel ɛunrounded open-mid front vowel ɔrounded open-mid back vowel aunrounded open front vowel
Vowels

Other segments

     
Other segments
 ²¹³ contour from-mid-low via-low to-mid tone
 ²¹ falling from-mid-low to-low tone
 ⁵⁵ flat from-high to-high tone
 ⁴² falling from-mid-high to-mid-low tone
 w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant
 əu from unrounded mid central to rounded close back diphthong