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