Vietnamese Phonology

From UniLang Wiki

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Unaspirated Plosive	p b	t đ	ch	c
Aspirated Plosive		th
m	n	nh	ng
Fricative	ph v	x/s d		kh g	h
Approximant	w		y
Lateral Approximant		l

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ư	u
Close-mid	ê	ơ	ô
Open-mid	e	â	a
Open		a/ă

Tones

There are six tones in standard Vietnamese.

• List of tones
  • High-level: "default" tone; not marked.
  • Low-falling: à.
  • High-rising: á
  • Falling-rising: ả
  • High broken: ã
  • Low broken: ạ