Help:IPA/Bengali
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Short description: Wikipedia key to pronunciation
 | This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Bengali on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Bengali in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or its value without establishing consensus on the talk page first. |
Charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Bengali pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{IPA-bn}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
See Bengali phonology and Bengali alphabet for a more thorough look at the sounds of Bengali.
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 ⟨জ⟩ and ⟨য⟩ may represent a voiced affricate /dʒ/ in Standard Bengali words of native origin, but they can also represent /z/ in foreign words and names (জাকাত [zakat] 'zakah charity', আজিজ [aziz] 'Aziz'). However, many speakers usually replace /z/ with /dʒ/. Additionally, some words that originally had /z/ are now pronounced with /dʑ/ in Standard Bengali (সবজি [ɕobdʑi] 'vegetable', from Persian sabzi).
- ↑ /pʰ/ is phonetically realised either as [pʰ] or [f] depending on the speaker and variety.
- ↑ /r/ is phonetically an alveolar trill [r], alveolar tap [ɾ] or alveolar approximant [ɹ] depending on the variety and speaker.
- ↑ Primary stress occurs in word-initial positions with secondary stress occurring afterwards.
Bibliography
- Khan, Sameer ud Dowla (2010), "Bengali (Bangladeshi Standard)", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 40 (2): 221–225, doi:10.1017/S0025100310000071, http://www.reed.edu/linguistics/khan/assets/Khan%202010%20Bengali%20Bangladeshi%20standard.pdf
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