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- ^ a b /bʱ/ is phonetically realised either as [bʱ] or /β/ (phonetically [ v~ β]) depending on the speaker and variety. /β/ can additionally occur as an allophone of /bʱ/ in foreign loan words e.g. ভিসা [βisa] 'visa'.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Bengali contrasts dental [ t and [ d with apical postalveolar [ ʈ and [ ɖ (as well as aspirated variants). Both sets sound like /t/ and /d/ to most English speakers although the dental [t] and [d] are used in place of the English /θ/ and /ð/ for some speakers with th-stopping.
- ^ a b ⟨জ⟩ and ⟨য⟩ may represent a voiced affricate / dʒ/ in Standard Bengali words of native origin, but they can also represent / z/ in foreign words and names (জাকাত [zakat] ' zakah charity', আজিজ [aziz] 'Aziz'). However, many speakers usually replace /z/ with /dʒ/. Additionally, some words that originally had /z/ are now pronounced with / dʑ/ in Standard Bengali (সবজি [ɕobdʑi] 'vegetable', from Persian sabzi).
- ^ /ɦ/ may be devoiced to [h] in word-initial or final positions, with [ɦ] occurring medially.
- ^ a b /pʰ/ is phonetically realised either as [pʰ] or /ɸ/ (phonetically [ f~ ɸ]) depending on the speaker and variety. /ɸ/ can additionally occur as an allophone of /pʰ/ in foreign loan words e.g. ফ্যান [ɸæn] 'fan'.
- ^ The phonetic realisation of /r/ is usually an alveolar flap [ ɾ] but may also be an alveolar approximant [ ɹ] or alveolar trill [ r] depending on the variety and speaker.
- ^ The [j] phoneme occurs in some pronunciations of Bengali vowel clusters, such as নয়ন [nɔjon].
- ^ a b c When preceding a vowel in word-initial positions, /w/ may occur as an allophone of /o/ and /u/, especially in loan words e.g. ওয়াদা [wada] 'promise', উইলিয়াম [wiliam] 'William'.
- ^ https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.10258
- ^ Mainly occurs as an allophone of [n] in conjunct with other postalveolar (retroflex) consonants.
- ^ Thompson, Hanne-Ruth (November 25, 2020). Bengali: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars), 1 (1 ed.). Routledge. p. 23. ISBN 978-0415411394.
- ^ a b Primary stress usually occurs in word-initial positions with secondary stress occurring afterwards.
- Khan, Sameer ud Dowla (2010), "Bengali (Bangladeshi Standard)" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 40 (2): 221–225, doi: 10.1017/S0025100310000071