Help:IPA_for_Mongolian

Help:IPA/Mongolian

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.

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Notes

  1. [1]
    Used only in loanwords.
  2. [2]
    [g] and [ɢ] are contrastive in Ulaanbaatar Mongolian, but are allophones of the single phoneme /g/ in some other dialects.
  3. [3]
    Always follows another consonant, and usually modifies the sound with iotation (unless used before е, in which case it is unpronounced).
  4. [4]
    Occasionally used before е to indicate that its pronunciation should not be blended with the consonant before it (as its sound is iotated).
  5. [5]
    Uncommon, and only found in loanwords of Tibetan origin, but occurs in some high-frequency words such as лхагва ("Wednesday").
  6. [6]
    Uncommon, but more often found in loanwords.
  7. [7]
    Used before я and ё to indicate that its pronunciation should not be blended with the consonant before it (as its sound is iotated).
  8. [8]
    In addition to the vowel sound, и also palatalizes any consonant immediately before it.
  9. [9]
    Resembles a diphthong, but is phonetically and phonemically a long monophthong. ии is not used.
  10. [10]
    The only long vowel represented by a single letter. Although pronounced with the same vowel sound as ий, it does not palatalize the preceding consonant. Other than loanwords, it is only found in inflectional suffixes.
  11. [11]
    Generally, /ju/ in words containing э, ө, ү & е; /jʊ/ in words containing а, о у, я & ё. See vowel harmony.
  12. [12]
    The allophone [ɛː] is predominant.
  13. [13]
    Also used where өй would occur, as it is not used.

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