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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 Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

Consonants
IPA	Cyrillic	English approximation
f	ф^[1]	five
g	г^[2]	got
ɢ	г^[2]	similar to got (but deeper in the throat)
ʲ	ь^[3]	Russian пять, English f[y]ew; occasionally unpronounced^[4]
kʰ	к^[1]	cot
ɮ	л	Not found in English; Welsh llwyd (but voiced)
ɬʰ	лх^[5]	Not found in English; Welsh llwyd (remaining voiceless)
m	м	mother
n	н	north
ŋ	н	link, sing
p	б	spend
pʰ	п^[6]	pen
r	р	Scottish roll; Spanish rosa
s	с	seven
ʃ	ш	shirt
ʃ	щ^[1]	shirt
t	д	stand
tʰ	т	tan
t͡s	з	cats
t͡sʰ	ц	let's have
t͡ʃ	ж	exchange
t͡ʃʰ	ч	change
w	в	win
x	х	Scottish loch; German Bach
	ъ^[6]	Unpronounced.^[7]

Vowels
IPA	Cyrillic	English approximation
Monophthongs
a	а	art
aː	аа	father
e	э	bet
eː	ээ	bed
i	и^[8]	leaf
iː	ий^[9], ы^[10]	leave
ɔ	о	off
ɔː	оо	dog
ɵ	ө	similar to nurse
oː	өө	RP/Australian thought
u	ү	boot
uː	үү	food
ʊ	у	look
ʊː	уу	good
iotated vowels
ja	я	y'all
jɵ	е	yurt
jɔ	ё	yawn
ju	ю^[11]	yule
jʊ	ю^[11]	yuck, with a vowel like look
diphthongs
ai^[12]	ай	price
ei	эй^[13]	flame
ɔi	ой	choice
ui	үй	phooey
ʊi	уй	roughly like weary or Uyghur

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