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Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Myanmar where it is an official language and the language of the Bamar people, the country's principal ethnic group.
The Burmese alphabet consists of 33 consonants. The first 25 consonants are distributed into five classes: gutturals, palatals, cerebrals, dentals and labials. The rest are called liquids, sibilant and aspirate.
Consonants
| Letter | Name | IPA |
|---|---|---|
| က | ကကြီး [ka̰ dʑí] | /k/ |
| ခ | ခကွေး [kʰa̰ ɡwé] | /kʰ/ |
| ဂ | ဂငယ် [ɡa̰ ŋɛ̀] | /ɡ/ |
| ဃ | ဃကြီး [ɡˀa̰ dʑí] | /ɡˀ/ |
| င | င [ŋa̰] | /ŋ/ |
| စ | စလုံး [sa̰ lóʊɴ] | /s/ |
| ဆ | ဆလိမ် [sʰa̰ lèɪɴ] | /sʰ/ |
| ဇ | ဇကွဲ [za̰ ɡwɛ́] | /z/ |
| ဈ | ဈမျဉ်းဆွဲ [zˀa̰ mjɪ̀ɴ zwɛ́] | /zˀ/ |
| ဉ / ည | ညကလေး/ ညကြီး [ɲa̰ dʑí] | /ɲ/ |
| ဋ | ဋသန်လျင်းချိတ် [ta̰ təlɪ́ɴ dʑeɪʔ] | /t/ |
| ဌ | ဌဝမ်းဘဲ [tʰa̰ wʊ́ɴ bɛ́] | /tʰ/ |
| ဍ | ဍရင်ကောက် [da̰ jɪ̀ɴ ɡaʊʔ] | /d/ |
| ဎ | ဎရေမှုတ် [dˀa̰ jè m̥oʊʔ] | /dˀ/ |
| ဏ | ဏကြီး [na̰ dʑí] | /n/ |
| တ | တဝမ်းပူ [ta̰ wʊ́ɴ bù] | /t/ |
| ထ | ထဆင်ထူး [tʰa̰ sʰɪ̀ɴ dú] | /tʰ/ |
| ဒ | ဒထွေး [da̰ dwé] | /d/ |
| ဓ | ဓအောက်ခြိုက် [dˀa̰ ʔaʊʔ tɕʰaɪʔ] | /dˀ/ |
| န | နငယ် [na̰ ŋɛ̀] | /n/ |
| ပ | ပစောက် [pa̰ zaʊʔ] | /p/ |
| ဖ | ဖဦးထုပ် [pʰa̰ ʔóʊʔ tʰoʊʔ] | /pʰ/ |
| ဗ | ဗထက်ခြိုက် [ba̰ lɛʔ tɕʰaɪʔ] | /b/ |
| ဘ | ဘကုန်း [bˀa̰ ɡóʊɴ] | /bˀ/ |
| မ | မ [ma̰] | /m/ |
| ဟ | ဟ [ha̰] | /h/ |
| ဠ | ဠကြီး [la̰ dʑí] | /l/ |
| အ | အ [ʔa̰] | /ʔ/ |
Vowels
| Letter | Diacritic | IPA |
|---|---|---|
| ဣ | ိ | í |
| ဤ | ီ | i |
| ီ + း | ì | |
| ◌ | á | |
| ာ | a | |
| ာ + း | à | |
| ဥ | ု | ú |
| ဦ | ူ | u |
| ူ + း | ù | |
| ေ + ့ | é | |
| ဧ | ေ | e |
| ေ + း | è | |
| ိ + ု + ့ | ó | |
| ိ + ု | o | |
| ိ + ု + း | ò | |
| ဲ + ့ | ɛ́ | |
| ◌ယ် | ɛ | |
| ဲ | ɛ̀ | |
| ဩ | ေ + ာ့ | ɔ́ |
| ေ + ာ် | ɔ | |
| ဪ | ေ + ာ | ɔ̀ |