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Wikipedia key to pronunciation of Shan and Tai Lue

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

See also

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Comparisons
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