Variety Phon (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 ŋ
Stop p pʰ t tʰ c kʰ k g ʔ
Sibilant affricate tsʰ ts
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s sʰ z ʃ
Non-sibilant fricative v x h
Approximant l ɹ j
Flap or tap
Trill r
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 ʊrounded near-close near-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
 w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant
 ⁵⁵ flat from-high to-high tone
 eɪ from unrounded close-mid front to unrounded near-close near-front diphthong
 ai from unrounded open front to unrounded close front diphthong
 ɛɪ from unrounded open-mid front to unrounded near-close near-front diphthong
 au from unrounded open front to rounded close back diphthong
 ei from unrounded close-mid front to unrounded close front diphthong