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Help:IPA/Shan and Tai Lue

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Shan and Tai Lue pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

Consonants
IPA Shan Burmese New Tai Lue English approximation
b ၿ [1] ဘ ᦢ,ᦥ abash
d ၻ,ꩨ [1] ဒ ᦡ,ᦤ ado
f ၾ ဖှ ᦚ,ᦝ food
ɡ ၷ [1] ဂ — good
h ႁ ဟ ᦠ,ᦣ head
j ယ ယ ᦊ,ᦍ yak
k ၵ က ᦂ,ᦅ scan
kʰ[2] ၶ ခ ᦃ,ᦆ can
l လ,ꩮ လ ᦜ,ᦟ live
m မ မ ᦖ,ᦙ much
n ၼ န ᦐ,ᦓ not
ŋ င င ᦄ,ᦇ bang
ɲ ၺ[1] ည — canyon
p ပ ပ ᦔ,ᦗ span
pʰ ၽ ဖ ᦕ,ᦘ pan
r ရ,꩹ [1] ရ ᦣ [1] roughly like water (American English)
s ၸ [3] စ ᦉ,ᦌ sue
sʰ သ ဆ — grasshopper
ʃ သျ ရှ — shoe
t တ,ꩦ တ ᦎ,ᦑ stable
tʰ ထ,ꩧ,ꩪ,ꩩ ထ ᦏ,ᦒ table
ts ၸ [3] စ/ကျ ᦈ,ᦋ Betsy
tsʰ ၶျ ချ — chang
θ ႀ [4] သ — thing
v[5] — ဝ ᦛ,ᦞ village
w[5] ဝ ဝ ᦛ,ᦞ way
x[2] — ခ ᦃ,ᦆ loch in Scottish English
z ၹ [4] ဇ — zebra
ʔ ဢ အ/ ဩ ᦀ,ᦁ the catch in uh-oh
 
Tone
IPA Description
a
or
ā 		mid [aː˧]
à low [a˨˩] or [a˩]
â falling [a˥˩] (Tai Lü only)
a̰ creaky falling [a̰˥˩] (Shan only)
á high [a˥]
ǎ rising [a˨˦] (Shan only)
a᷄ high rising [a˧˥] (Tai Lü only)
a᷅ low rising [a˩˧] (Tai Lü only)
Vowels
IPA Shan Burmese New Tai Lü English approximation
Short vowels
a unmarked အး ᦰ cat
e ေ,ဵ ေ ᦵ roughly like say
ɛ ႄ, ႅ ဲ ᦶ bet
i ီ ီ ᦲ happy
o ူဝ် ို ᦷ story
ɔ ေႃ, ွ ော ᦸ off
u ု, ူ ူ ᦳ cool
ɯ
or
ɨ 		ိုဝ် ု ᦹ good
ɤ
or
ə 		ိူဝ် ော်/ယ် ᦵᦲ roughly like hurt (shorter)
Long vowels
aː ၢ, ႃ ာ, ါ ᦱ bra

Notes

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  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f In foreign words
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b /kʰ/ and /x/ are in free variation.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Sometimes /s/ and /ts/ are used interchangeably.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b In Burmese loanwords
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b /v/ and /w/ are in free variation

See also

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