Marathi Phonology
The phoneme inventory of the Marathi language is similar to that of many other Indo-Āryan languages. An IPA chart of all contrastive sounds in Marathi is provided below.
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | (Alveolo-) palatal |
Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n̪ | ɳ | |||||
| mʱ | n̪ʱ | ɳʱ | ||||||
| Stop | p | t̪ | ts | ʈ | tʃ | k | ||
| pʰ | t̪ʰ | tsʰ | ʈʰ | tʃʰ | kʰ | |||
| b | d̪ | dz | ɖ | dʒ | ɡ | |||
| bʱ | d̪ʱ | dzʱ | ɖʱ | dʒʱ | ɡʱ | |||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||||
| Approximant | ʋ | l | ɭ | j | ||||
| ʋʱ | lʱ | |||||||
| Rhotic | ɾ | |||||||
| ɾʱ | ||||||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Low | a |
Read more about Marathi Phonology: Vowels, Consonants, Consonant Clusters