Vaiphei has eight diphthongs, . These can all occur in word-medially and word-finally, but cannot occur word-initially.

Tone

Vaiphei is a tonal language with three contrastive tones, two contour tones and a low tone. Suantak (2013) uses numerals, where 1 is lowest and 5 is highest, and provides Chao tone letters.

All three tones can occur on any vowel. All tones can occur with though the rising and falling

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