Arakanese Consonants and Vowel Letters
This page presents the 33 written consonant letters and the vowel forms as tables. Each letter is shown with its name and the supplied phonetic transcription (IPA).
The 33 consonant letters
Read down the rows. The table is divided into groups of five, with a final group of three.
Reading this reference: The chart lists 33 written consonant letters; this is not a count of distinct consonant sounds. Letter names and IPA are retained from the supplied lesson. The transcriptions have not been independently verified.
| Letter | Name | IPA |
|---|---|---|
| Ka group · 01–05 | ||
| က | ကကြီး | [ka̰] |
| ခ | ခခွေ | [kʰa̰] |
| ဂ | ဂဂွေ | [ɡa̰] |
| ဃ | ဃကျောက်ရှည် | [ɡa̰] |
| င | င | [ŋa̰] |
| Sa group · 06–10 | ||
| စ | စလုံး | [sa̰] |
| ဆ | ဆလိမ် | [sʰa̰] |
| ဇ | ဇဂွေး | [za̰] |
| ဈ | ဇမျှင်ဆွဲ | [za̰] |
| ည | ည | [ɲa̰] |
| Ṭa group · 11–15 | ||
| ဋ | ဋသံချိတ် | [ta̰] |
| ဌ | ဌဝမ်းဘဲ | [tʰa̰] |
| ဍ | ဍသံကောက် | [da̰] |
| ဎ | ဎရီမှုတ် | [da̰] |
| ဏ | ဏကြီး | [na̰] |
| Ta group · 16–20 | ||
| တ | တဝမ်းတက် | [ta̰] |
| ထ | ထဝမ်းစိ | [tʰa̰] |
| ဒ | ဒဇွယ် | [da̰] |
| ဓ | ဓဝမ်းချိုင့် | [da̰] |
| န | နငယ် | [na̰] |
| Pa group · 21–25 | ||
| ပ | ပစောက် | [pa̰] |
| ဖ | ဖဖက်လိပ် | [pʰa̰] |
| ဗ | ဗလုံး | [ba̰] |
| ဘ | ဘဗုံးချိုင့် | [ba̰] |
| မ | မ | [ma̰] |
| Ya group · 26–30 | ||
| ယ | ယ | [ja̰] |
| ရ | ရ | [ra̰] |
| လ | လ | [la̰] |
| ဝ | ဝ | [wa̰] |
| သ | သ | [θa̰] |
| Ha group · 31–33 | ||
| ဟ | ဟ | [ha̰] |
| ဠ | ဠကြီး | [la̰] |
| အ | အ | [ʔa̰] |
Vowel letters and written forms
The vowel forms from the lesson are shown below with their supplied phonetic transcriptions.
| Vowel form | IPA |
|---|---|
| အ | [ʔa̰] |
| အာ | [à] |
| ဣ | [ḭ] |
| ဤ | [ì] |
| ဥ | [ṵ] |
| ဦ | [ù] |
| ဧ | [è] |
| အဲ | [ɛ́] |
| ဩ | [ɔ́] |
| အံ | [àɴ] |
| အို | [ò] |
| ဪ | [ɔ̀] |
Additional consonant form
The supplied lesson also includes သျှ with the transcription [ʃ]. It is displayed separately from the vowel forms.
| Letter | IPA | Note |
|---|---|---|
| သျှ | [ʃ] | Additional form |
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