Help:IPA/Mongolian

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


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

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