They are apical postalveolar in Western Dialects. ^ True retroflex ( murdhonno) consonants are not found in Bengali.^ /a/ is phonetically realised as a near-open central vowel by most speakers.Example: The word নোংরা (meaning "foul") is pronounced as /nʊŋra/ and /noŋra/ (Romanized as both nungra and nongra), both. In modern Bengali, both the ancient and adopted pronunciation of ও can be heard. ^ / o/, represented by the letter ও, was originally pronounced as / ʊ/, though / o/ entered the Bengali phonology by Sanskrit influence.may also occur as an allophone of /e/ for some speakers, especially in loan words from English. ^ a b c /æ/ is usually pronounced as a near-open but may also be pronounced and transcribed in IPA as open-mid, depending on the speaker or variety.^ 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.^ The phonetic quality of /u/ may also be a fully back near-close rounded vowel / ʊ/.In the tables below, the sounds are given in IPA.Īlthough the standard form of Bengali is largely uniform across West Bengal and Bangladesh, there are a few sounds that vary in pronunciation (in addition to the myriad variations in non-standard dialects): Each vowel has examples of being nasalized in Bengali words, thus adding 7 more additional nasalized vowels. Phonemically, Bengali features 29 consonants and 7 vowels.
Standard Bangladeshi Bengali vowel chart, from Khan (2010:222)
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