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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Burmese-language pronunciations in Wiktionary entries.
See Burmese phonology for a more thorough discussion of the sounds of Burmese.
Tones
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IPA
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Burmese example
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Explanation
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◌̀
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ငါ /ŋà/ |
Normal phonation, medium duration, low intensity, low (often slightly rising) pitch
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◌́
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ငါး /ŋá/ |
Sometimes slightly breathy, relatively long, high intensity, high pitch; often with a fall before a pause
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◌̰
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ငါ့ /ŋa̰/ |
Tense or creaky phonation (sometimes with lax glottal stop), medium duration, high intensity, high (often slightly falling) pitch
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Unaspirated, like /p t k/ etc. in Romance or Slavic languages.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Heavily aspirated.
- ^ The vowel before the /ɴ/ is always nasalized, and if a consonant follows /ɴ/, then the /ɴ/ becomes homorganic with the following consonant.
- ^ A marginal consonant in Burmese, /ɹ/ occurs only in foreign words, and even there is often replaced by /j/ or /l/.
- ^ In accents without the wine–whine merger, e.g. Scottish English, Irish English, and some varieties of American English.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 The sounds , , , , , and are allophones of /ai/, /au/, /ei/, /i/, /ou/, and /u/ respectively, occurring in closed syllables, i.e. before /ɴ/ and /ʔ/.