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 {{IPA-mn}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

Consonants
IPA Cyrillic English approximation
f ф[1] five
g г[2] got
ɢ similar to got (but deeper in the throat)
j й yellow
ʲ ь[1] Russian пять
kʰ к[1] cot
ɮ л No English equivalent
m м mother
n н north
ŋ link, sing
p б been
pʰ п[1] pen
r р Scottish roll; Spanish rosa
s с seven
ʃ ш shirt
ʃt͡ʃ щ[1] fresh cheese
t д stand
tʰ т tan
t͡s з, ц cats
t͡ʃ ж exchange
t͡ʃʰ ч change
w̜ в win
x х Scottish loch; German Bach
Vowels
IPA Cyrillic English approximation
monophthongs
a a art
aː father
e е, э Scottish late
eː Scottish day
i и, ы, ъ, э leaf
iː leave
ɔ о off
ɔː dog
ɵ ө similar to nurse
oː RP/Australian thought
u ү boot
uː food
ʊ у look
ʊː good
diphthongs
ai ай price
ɔi ой choice
ui үй to eternity
ʊi уй roughly like to eternity

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Used only in loanwords.
  2. ^ [g] and [ɢ] are contrastive in Ulaanbaatar Mongolian, but are allophones of the single phoneme /g/ in some other dialects.