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IPA	Cyrillic	Latin	English approximation
Consonants
b	б	b	bee
ɕ	ч	ç	she
ɕː	щ^[1]	şç	she
d	д	d	day
f	ф	f	fat
ɡ	г	g	go
h	һ	h	hat
j	й^[2]	y	yes
k	к	k	key
l	л	l	leaf
m	м	m	my
n	н	n	no
ŋ	ң	ñ	sing
p	п	p	park
q	к (къ){^[3]	q	Arabic Miqaṣṣ (مقص)
ɾ	р	r	Scottish girl
ʁ	г (гъ)^[3]	ğ	French rouge
s	с	s	say
ʃ	ш	ş	shy
t	т	t	table
ts	ц^[1]	ts	bits
tɕ	ч^[1]	ç	cheese
v	в^[1]	v	van
w	у, ү, в	w	well
χ	х	x	Scottish loch
z	з	z	zoo
ʑ	җ	c	azure (UK)
ʐ	ж	j	garage (US)
ʔ	ь, э^[4]	'	glottal stop in oh-oh

IPA	Cyrillic	Latin	English approximation
Vowels
ɑ	a^[2]^[5]	a	father
æ	ә^[2]^[6]	ä / ə^[7]	cat
e̞	е,^[2] э	e	bit
ɤ̞	ы^[2]	ı	Vietnamese Cảm ơn
ɯɪ	ый	ıy / i^[8]	Scottish price
i	и	i	feed
ʊ	о	o	cup (Northern England)
ø̞	ө^[6]	ö	bird (Northern England)
u	у^[2]	u	put (RP)
ʉ	ү^[2]	ü	goose (RP)
Suprasegmental
IPA	Explanation
ˈ	Stress mark, placed before the stressed syllable

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Only in Russian loanwords
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Combinations [jɑ, jæ], [jɤ̞, je], [ju, jʉ] are spelled in Cyrillic as Я я, Е е, Ю ю, respectively, and in Latin as ya/yä, yı/ye, yu/yü.
^ ^a ^b [q] and [ʁ] are spelled in Cyrillic as К к and Г г, and only in a few words as къ and гъ, whereas in Latin, they're spelled as q and ğ respectively.
^ Only in Arabic loanwords, ь and э are used to indicate the glottal stop: e.g. мәсьәлә and маэмай.
^ The low back vowel /ɑ/ is realised as [ɒ] when it occurs at the beginning of words, e.g. bara [bɒrɑ] 'he goes', baralar [bɒrɑlɑr] 'they go'.
^ ^a ^b Combinations [qæ, ʁæ] and [qø‌, ʁø‌] are spelled in Cyrillic as ка/га and ко/го respectively and in Latin as qä/ğä and qö/ğö.
^ While the letter ä is officially part of the current Latin script of Tatar Zamanälif, some Tatars writing in the Latin script use ə instead. This has unofficially been called the Neo-alif alphabet, which disregards ä due to its abundant occurrence in Tatar words compared to the other umlaut letters, creating an undesired aesthetic outcome.
^ Tatar uses a combination of г / к + ый to indicate [ʁ] and [q], respectively. Because unlike in Bashkurt, Tatar lacks the Cyrillic letters ғ and ҡ (ğ and q in the Latin script). The Cyrillic letters г and к are used to indicate both k/g and q/ğ in Tatar. Therefore, the spelling of гый/кый in the Tatar Latin script is ği/qi.

[loanwords-1] Only in Russian loanwords

[j-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Combinations [jɑ, jæ], [jɤ̞, je], [ju, jʉ] are spelled in Cyrillic as Я я, Е е, Ю ю, respectively, and in Latin as ya/yä, yı/ye, yu/yü.

[q-3] [q] and [ʁ] are spelled in Cyrillic as К к and Г г, and only in a few words as къ and гъ, whereas in Latin, they're spelled as q and ğ respectively.

[4] Only in Arabic loanwords, ь and э are used to indicate the glottal stop: e.g. мәсьәлә and маэмай.

[5] The low back vowel /ɑ/ is realised as [ɒ] when it occurs at the beginning of words, e.g. bara [bɒrɑ] 'he goes', baralar [bɒrɑlɑr] 'they go'.

[qae-6] Combinations [qæ, ʁæ] and [qø‌, ʁø‌] are spelled in Cyrillic as ка/га and ко/го respectively and in Latin as qä/ğä and qö/ğö.

[7] While the letter ä is officially part of the current Latin script of Tatar Zamanälif, some Tatars writing in the Latin script use ə instead. This has unofficially been called the Neo-alif alphabet, which disregards ä due to its abundant occurrence in Tatar words compared to the other umlaut letters, creating an undesired aesthetic outcome.

[8] Tatar uses a combination of г / к + ый to indicate [ʁ] and [q], respectively. Because unlike in Bashkurt, Tatar lacks the Cyrillic letters ғ and ҡ (ğ and q in the Latin script). The Cyrillic letters г and к are used to indicate both k/g and q/ğ in Tatar. Therefore, the spelling of гый/кый in the Tatar Latin script is ği/qi.

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