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The charts below show the way in which the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] (IPA) represents [[Social:Mongolian language|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 {{tl|IPA-mn}} and {{section link|Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation#Entering IPA characters}}.

{| style="background: none"
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{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="4" | Consonants
|-
! IPA !! style="text-align:center;" | Cyrillic
! scope="col" | English approximation
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|f}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | ф<ref name="loanwords">Used only in loanwords.</ref>
| '''''f'''ive''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|g}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" | г<ref>{{IPAblink|g}} and {{IPAblink|ɢ}} are contrastive in Ulaanbaatar Mongolian, but are allophones of the single phoneme {{IPA|/g/}} in some other dialects.</ref>
| '''''g'''ot''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|ɢ}}</big>
| similar to '''''g'''ot'' (but deeper in the throat)
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|j}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | й
| '''''y'''ellow''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|ʲ}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | ь<ref name="loanwords"/>
| [[Russian language|Russian]] пят'''ь''', English '''k'''ey
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|kʰ}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | к<ref name="loanwords"/>
| '''''c'''ot''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|ɮ}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | л
| Not found in English; Welsh '''ll'''wyd but voiced
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|m}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | м
| '''''m'''other''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|n}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" | н
| '''''n'''orth''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|ŋ}}</big>
| ''li'''n'''k'', ''si'''ng'''''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|p}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | б
| '''b'''een
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|pʰ}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | п<ref name="loanwords"/>
| '''''p'''en''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|r}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | р
| Scottish '''''r'''oll''; [[Social:Spanish language|Spanish]] '''''r'''osa''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|s}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | с
| '''''s'''even''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|ʃ}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | ш
| '''''sh'''irt''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA|ʃt͡ʃ}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | щ<ref name="loanwords"/>
| ''fre'''sh ch'''eese''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|t}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | д
| ''s'''t'''and''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|tʰ}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | т
| '''''t'''an''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|t͡s}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | з, ц
| ''ca'''ts'''''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|t͡ʃ}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | ж
| ''ex'''ch'''ange''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|t͡ʃʰ}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | ч
| '''''ch'''ange''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|w̜}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | в
| '''''w'''in''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|x}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | х
| Scottish ''lo'''ch'''''; [[German language|German]] ''Ba'''ch'''''
|}

| style="vertical-align:top;" | 
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" | Vowels
|-
! IPA !! Cyrillic !! scope="col" | English approximation
|-
! colspan="3" | monophthongs
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|ä|a}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" | a
| '''''a'''rt''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|ä|aː}}</big>
| ''f'''a'''ther''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|e}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" | е, э
| Scottish ''l'''a'''te''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|eː}}</big>
| Scottish ''d'''ay'''''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|i}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" | и, ы, ъ, э
| ''l'''ea'''f''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|iː}}</big>
| ''l'''ea'''ve''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|ɔ}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" | о
| '''''o'''ff''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|ɔː}}</big>
| ''d'''o'''g''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|ɵ}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" | ө
| similar to ''n'''ur'''se''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|oː}}</big>
| RP/Australian ''th'''ough'''t''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|u}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" | ү
| ''b'''oo'''t''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|uː}}</big>
| ''f'''oo'''d''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|ʊ}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" | у
| ''l'''oo'''k''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA link|ʊː}}</big>
| ''g'''oo'''d''
|-
! colspan="3" | diphthongs
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA|ai}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | ай
| ''pr'''i'''ce''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA|ɔi}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | ой
| ''ch'''oi'''ce''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA|ui}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | үй
| ''ph'''ooey'''''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | <big>{{IPA|ʊi}}</big>
| style="text-align:center;" | уй
| roughly like ''ph'''ooey'''''
|}
|}

==Notes==
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{{Sourceattribution|Mongolian}}