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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Mongolian language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. The dialect used in this chart is Khalkha Mongolian. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

Consonants
IPA Cyrillic English approximation
f ф[a] five
g г[b] got
ɢ similar to got (but deeper in the throat)
ʲ ь[c] Russian пять, English f[y]ew;
occasionally unpronounced[d]
к[a] cot
ɮ л Not found in English; Welsh llwyd (but voiced)
ɬʰ лх[e] Not found in English; Welsh llwyd (remaining voiceless)
m м mother
n н north
ŋ link, sing
p б spend
п[f] pen
r р Scottish roll; Spanish rosa
s с seven
ʃ ш shirt
щ[a]
t д stand
т tan
t͡s з cats
t͡sʰ ц let's have
t͡ʃ ж exchange
t͡ʃʰ ч change
w в win
x х Scottish loch; German Bach
ъ[f] unpronounced[g]
Vowels
IPA Cyrillic English approximation
Monophthongs
a а between fat and father (short)
аа between fat and father (long)
e э bet (short)
ээ fairy (long)
i и[h] leaf (short)
ий,[i] ы[j] leaf (long)
ɔ о off (short)
ɔː оо off (long)
ɵ ө Southern England put; somewhat like nurse in other dialects
өө story
u ү cool (short)
үү cool (long)
ʊ у pull (short)
ʊː уу pull (long)
iotated vowels
ja я between yam and yahoo
е yurt
ё yonder
ju ю[k] yule
yuck, with a vowel like look
diphthongs
ai ай[l] price
ei эй[m] flame
ɔi ой[l] choice
ui үй[l] booyah; Gruyère
ʊi уй[l] roughly like weary or Uyghur

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Used only in loanwords.
  2. ^ [g] and [ɢ] are contrastive in the Ulaanbaatar dialect, but are allophones of the single phoneme /g/ in other dialects.
  3. ^ Always follows another consonant, and usually modifies the sound with iotation (unless used before е, in which case it is unpronounced).
  4. ^ Occasionally used before е to indicate that its pronunciation should not be blended with the consonant before it (as its sound is iotated).
  5. ^ Uncommon, and only found in loanwords of Tibetan origin, but occurs in some high-frequency words such as лхагва 'Wednesday'.
  6. ^ a b Uncommon, but more often found in loanwords.
  7. ^ Used before я and ё to indicate that its pronunciation should not be blended with the consonant before it (as its sound is iotated).
  8. ^ In addition to the vowel sound, и also palatalizes any consonant immediately before it.
  9. ^ Resembles a diphthong, but is phonetically and phonemically a long monophthong. ии is not used.
  10. ^ The only long vowel represented by a single letter. Although pronounced with the same vowel sound as ий, it does not palatalize the preceding consonant. Other than loanwords, it is only found in inflectional suffixes.
  11. ^ Generally, /ju/ in words containing э, ө, ү, е; /jʊ/ in words containing а, о, у, я, ё. (See Mongolian vowel harmony.)
  12. ^ a b c d The diphthongs /ai̯, ɔi̯, ʊi̯, ui̯/ are pronounced closer to [ɛe̯, ɞe̯, ɵe̯, ʉe̯] in Khalkha Mongolian.[1]
  13. ^ Also used where өй would occur, as it is not used.

References

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  1. ^ Svantesson et al. (2005): 22

See also

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