Help:IPA/Malayalam
Wikipedia key to pronunciation of Malayalam
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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Malayalam pronunciations. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
 | This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Malayalam on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Malayalam in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
See Malayalam phonology for a more thorough discussion of the sounds of Malayalam.
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Notes
- Malayalam contrasts dental [t̪] and [d̪] with retroflex [ʈ] and [ɖ] (as well as aspirated variants). Both sets sound like /t/ and /d/ to most English speakers although the dental [t̪] and [d̪] are used in place of the English /θ/ and /ð/ for some speakers with th-stopping. There is also an unvoiced alveolar [t] in Malayalam while the voiced alveolar [d] can occur after [n].
- Pure consonant without implicit vowel. Found within consonant clusters and at the ends of words.
- modern orthography uses ന for both /n̪/ and /n/, and ഩ is no longer used.
- ഫ is used for both /f/ and /pʰ/.
- Post-base ligature element.
- Pre-base ligature element, realized as /r/ or /ɾ/ depending on the preceding consonant.
- archaic, modern orthography uses ൗ instead
- only occurs word finally in standard Malayalam and has no distinct letter, ു് representation is rare