Help:IPA/Mongolian

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! colspan="4" | Consonants

| style="text-align:center;" | ф{{efn|Used only in loanwords.|name=loanwords}}

| five

| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" | г{{efn|{{IPAblink|g}} and {{IPAblink|ɢ}} are contrastive in the Ulaanbaatar dialect, but are allophones of the single phoneme {{IPA|/g/}} in other dialects.}}

| got

| similar to got (but deeper in the throat)

| style="text-align:center;" | ь{{efn|Always follows another consonant, and usually modifies the sound with iotation (unless used before е, in which case it is unpronounced).}}

| Russian пять, English f[y]ew;
occasionally unpronounced{{efn|Occasionally used before е to indicate that its pronunciation should not be blended with the consonant before it (as its sound is iotated).}}

| style="text-align:center;" | к{{efn|name=loanwords}}

| cot

| style="text-align:center;" | л

| Not found in English; Welsh llwyd (but voiced)

| style="text-align:center;" | лх{{efn|Uncommon, and only found in loanwords of Tibetan origin, but occurs in some high-frequency words such as {{lang|mn|лхагва}} 'Wednesday'.}}

| Not found in English; Welsh llwyd (remaining voiceless)

| style="text-align:center;" | м

| mother

| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" | н

| north

| link, sing

| style="text-align:center;" | б

| spend

| style="text-align:center;" | п{{efn|Uncommon, but more often found in loanwords.|name=loanwords2}}

| pen

| style="text-align:center;" | р

| Scottish roll; Spanish rosa

| style="text-align:center;" | с

| seven

| style="text-align:center;" | ш

| rowspan=2 | shirt

| style="text-align:center;" | д

| stand

| style="text-align:center;" | т

| tan

| style="text-align:center;" | з

| cats

| style="text-align:center;" | ц

| let's have

| style="text-align:center;" | ж

| exchange

| style="text-align:center;" | ч

| change

| style="text-align:center;" | в

| win

| style="text-align:center;" | х

| Scottish loch; German Bach

| unpronounced{{efn|Used before я and ё to indicate that its pronunciation should not be blended with the consonant before it (as its sound is iotated).}}

! colspan="3" | Vowels

| style="text-align:center;" | а

| between fat and father (short)

| style="text-align:center;" | аа

| between fat and father (long)

| style="text-align:center;" | э

| bet (short)

| style="text-align:center;" | ээ

| fairy (long)

| style="text-align:center;" | и{{efn|In addition to the vowel sound, и also palatalizes any consonant immediately before it.}}

| leaf (short)

| style="text-align:center;" | ий,{{efn|Resembles a diphthong, but is phonetically and phonemically a long monophthong. ии is not used.}} ы{{efn|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.}}

| leaf (long)

| style="text-align:center;" | о

| off (short)

| style="text-align:center;" | оо

| off (long)

| style="text-align:center;" | ө

| Southern England put; somewhat like nurse in other dialects

| style="text-align:center;" | өө

| story

| style="text-align:center;" | ү

| cool (short)

| style="text-align:center;" | үү

| cool (long)

| style="text-align:center;" | у

| pull (short)

| style="text-align:center;" | уу

| pull (long)

| style="text-align:center;" | я

| between yam and yahoo

| style="text-align:center;" | е

| yurt

| style="text-align:center;" | ё

| yonder

| style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2 | ю{{efn|Generally, {{IPA|/ju/}} in words containing э, ө, ү, е; {{IPA|/jʊ/}} in words containing а, о, у, я, ё. (See Mongolian vowel harmony.)}}

| yule

| yuck, with a vowel like look

| style="text-align:center;" | ай{{efn|The diphthongs {{IPA|/ai̯, ɔi̯, ʊi̯, ui̯/}} are pronounced closer to {{IPA|[ɛe̯, ɞe̯, ɵe̯, ʉe̯]}} in Khalkha Mongolian.Svantesson et al. (2005): 22|name=diphthongs}}

| price

| style="text-align:center;" | эй{{efn|Also used where өй would occur, as it is not used.}}

| flame

| style="text-align:center;" | ой{{efn|name=diphthongs}}

| choice

| style="text-align:center;" | үй{{efn|name=diphthongs}}

| booyah; Gruyère

| style="text-align:center;" | уй{{efn|name=diphthongs}}

| roughly like weary or Uyghur