Help:IPA for Mongolian

The charts below show the way in which in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Mongolian pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.

See Mongolian language for a more thorough look at the sounds of Mongolian, as well as dialectal variations not represented here. The dialect used in this chart is Khalkha Mongolian.

Consonants IPA Cyrillic English approximation f ф five g г got ɢ similar to got (but swallowed) j й yellow ʲ ь Russian пять kʰ к cot ɮ л pill m м mother n н north ŋ link, sing p б ben pʰ п pen r р Scottish roll; Spanish rosa s с seven ʃ ш shirt ʃt͡ʃ щ fresh cheese t д den tʰ т ten t͡s з, ц cats t͡ʃ ж jet t͡ʃʰ ч check w 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 RP/Australian hot ɔː RP/Australian nod 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