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XIV key to pronunciation of Bengali
Charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Bengali pronunciations in XIV articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to XIV articles, see Template:IPA and XIV:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
See Bengali phonology and Bengali alphabet for a more thorough look at the sounds of Bengali.
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Notesâģ
- ^ /bĘą/ is phonetically realised either as âģ or /β/ (phonetically âģ) depending on the speaker and "variety." /β/ can additionally occur as an allophone of /bĘą/ in foreign loan words e.g. āĻāĻŋāĻ¸āĻž âģ 'visa'.
- ^ Bengali contrasts dental âģ and âģ with apical postalveolar âģ and âģ (as well as aspirated variants). Both sets sound like /t/ and /d/ to most English speakers although the dental âģ and âģ are used in place of the English /θ/ and /ð/ for some speakers with th-stopping.
- ^ â¨āĻ⊠and â¨āĻ¯âŠ may represent a voiced affricate /dĘ/ in Standard Bengali words of native origin. But they can also represent /z/ in foreign words and names (āĻāĻžāĻāĻžāĻ¤ âģ 'zakah charity', āĻāĻāĻŋāĻ âģ 'Aziz'). However, many speakers usually replace /z/ with /dĘ/. Additionally, some words that originally had /z/ are now pronounced with /dĘ/ in Standard Bengali (āĻ¸āĻŦāĻāĻŋ âģ 'vegetable', from Persian sabzi).
- ^ /ÉĻ/ may be devoiced to âģ in word-initial or final positions, with âģ occurring medially.
- ^ /pĘ°/ is phonetically realised either as âģ or /ɸ/ (phonetically âģ) depending on the speaker and variety. /ɸ/ can additionally occur as an allophone of /pĘ°/ in foreign loan words e.g. āĻĢā§āĻ¯āĻžāĻ¨ âģ 'fan'.
- ^ The phonetic realisation of /r/ is usually an alveolar flap âģ but may also be an alveolar approximant âģ or alveolar trill âģ depending on the variety and speaker.
- ^ The âģ phoneme occurs in some pronunciations of Bengali vowel clusters, such as āĻ¨āĻ¯āĻŧāĻ¨ âģ.
- ^ When preceding vowel in word-initial positions, /w/ may occur as an allophone of /o/ and /u/, especially in loan words e.g. āĻāĻ¯āĻŧāĻžāĻĻāĻž âģ 'promise', āĻāĻāĻ˛āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻžāĻŽ âģ 'William'.
- ^ https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.10258
- ^ Mainly occurs as an allophone of âģ in conjunct with other postalveolar (retroflex) consonants.
- ^ Thompson, Hanne-Ruth (November 25, 2020). Bengali: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars), 1 (1 ed.). Routledge. p. 23. ISBN 978-0415411394.
- ^ Primary stress usually occurs in word-initial positions with secondary stress occurring afterwards.
Bibliographyâģ
- Khan, Sameer ud Dowla (2010), "Bengali (Bangladeshi Standard)" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 40 (2): 221â225, doi:10.1017/S0025100310000071