Variety Sani (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 ŋ
Stop p pʰ b t tʰ d k kʰ g qʰ q
Sibilant affricate ts tsʰ ʈʂ ʈʂʰ ɖʐ tɕ tɕʰ dʑ
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s z ʂ ʐ ɕ ʑ
Non-sibilant fricative f v x ɣ χ h
Approximant l
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 ɯunrounded close back vowel urounded close back vowel ɪunrounded near-close near-front vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel orounded close-mid back vowel ɤunrounded close-mid back vowel ɤ̠retracted unrounded close-mid back vowel ɛunrounded open-mid front vowel aunrounded open front vowel a̠retracted unrounded open front vowel ɑunrounded open back vowel
Vowels

Other segments

     
Other segments
 ²¹ falling from-mid-low to-low tone
 ³³ flat from-mid to-mid tone
 ae from unrounded open front to unrounded close-mid front diphthong
 ⁴⁴ flat from-mid-high to-mid-high tone
 ⁵⁵ flat from-high to-high tone
 ² short from-mid-low tone