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A Question On Phonetic Transcription Of Vietnamese

Table 1: Letters and their corresponding sounds in Vietnamese dialects

Letters Literary Standard Northern Central Southern
initial consonants
tr ʈ c ʈ ʈ
q k k k w
v v v v j
d –gi z z z/j j
r ʐ z ʐ ʐ/z/ɣ
h h h h h/ɣ
vowels
a a a a
e e e ɤ
iȇ – yê ie ie ie i
u
êu ew ew ew iw
ươ ɯɤ ɯɤ ɯɤ ɯ
final consonants
t t t t k
ch k k k t
n n n n ŋ
nh ŋ ŋ ŋ n
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