Variety Yi (Mojiang) (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 pʰ p b t tʰ d ʈʰ k kʰ g ʔ
Sibilant affricate tsʰ ts dz tɕʰ tɕ dʑ
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s z ɕ ʑ
Non-sibilant fricative f v x ɣ h ɦ
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 ĩnasalized unrounded close front vowel urounded close back vowel ɯunrounded close back vowel ɯ̃nasalized unrounded close back vowel ɪ̃nasalized unrounded near-close near-front vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel ẽnasalized unrounded close-mid front vowel orounded close-mid back vowel õnasalized rounded close-mid back vowel ɛunrounded open-mid front vowel aunrounded open front vowel ãnasalized unrounded open front vowel ɒrounded open back vowel ɑunrounded open back vowel
Vowels

Other segments

     
Other segments
 ³³ flat from-mid to-mid tone
 ⁵⁵ flat from-high to-high tone
 ²¹ falling from-mid-low to-low tone
 w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant
 ² short from-mid-low tone
 ɪ̈ unrounded near-close central vowel