Phonology
The Assamese phonemic inventory consists of eight vowels, ten diphthongs, and twenty-one consonants.
| Front | Central | Back | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPA | ROM | Script | IPA | ROM | Script | IPA | ROM | Script | |
| Close | i | i | ই/ঈ | u | u | উ/ঊ | |||
| Near-close | ʊ | û | ও | ||||||
| Close-mid | e | e | এ' | o | o | অ' | |||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ê | এ | ɔ | ô | অ | |||
| Open | a | a | আ | ||||||
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPA | ROM | Script | IPA | ROM | Script | IPA | ROM | Script | IPA | ROM | Script | ||
| Nasal | m | m | ম | n | n | ন/ণ | ŋ | ng | ঙ/ং | ||||
| Stop | p | p | প | t | t | ত/ট | k | k | ক | ||||
| pʰ | ph | ফ | tʰ | th | থ/ঠ | kʰ | kh | খ | |||||
| b | b | ব | d | d | দ/ড | ɡ | g | গ | |||||
| bʱ | bh | ভ | dʱ | dh | ধ/ঢ | ɡʱ | gh | ঘ | |||||
| Fricative | s | s | চ/ছ | x | x | শ/ষ/স | ɦ | h | হ | ||||
| z | z | জ/ঝ/য | |||||||||||
| Approximant | w | w | ৱ | l, ɹ | l, r | ল, ৰ | |||||||
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