| Vowels |
| IPA | Actual modern European | Examples | English approximation |
| ရမျာၚ်:/a/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. | ရမျာၚ်:/a/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
patte |
roughly like pat |
| ရမျာၚ်:/ɑ/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
pâte; glas[၆] |
roughly like father (or like bra in conservative accents and Quebec French) |
| ရမျာၚ်:/e/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
clé; les; chez; aller; pied |
pay |
| ရမျာၚ်:/ɛ/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. | ရမျာၚ်:/ɛ/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
mère; est; abdomen; faite |
best |
| ရမျာၚ်:/ɛː/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
fête; maître; reine; scène; caisse; reître[၇] |
says |
| ရမျာၚ်:/i/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
si; île; y |
bee |
| ရမျာၚ်:/ə/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. | ရမျာၚ်:/ø/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
le; reposer[၈] |
again (often elided) |
| ရမျာၚ်:/ø/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
ceux; jeûne |
roughly like bird (British English) |
| ရမျာၚ်:/œ/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
sœur; jeune |
bird (British English) |
| ရမျာၚ်:/o/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
sot; hôtel; haut; bureau |
roughly like law (British English) or note (American English) |
| ရမျာၚ်:/ɔ/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
sort; minimum |
similar to not (British English) or caught (American English)[၉] |
| ရမျာၚ်:/u/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
coup |
too |
| ရမျာၚ်:/y/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
tu; sûr |
judas |
| Nasal |
| ရမျာၚ်:/ɑ̃/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. | ရမျာၚ်:/ɒ̃/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
sans; champ; vent; temps; Jean; taon[၁၀] |
roughly like want (British English) or haunt (American English) |
| ရမျာၚ်:/ɛ̃/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. | ရမျာၚ်:/æ̃/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
vin; impair; pain; daim; plein; Reims; bien[၁၁] |
roughly like pant |
| ရမျာၚ်:/œ̃/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
un; parfum[၁၂] |
roughly like pant (or, in conservative accents or Quebec French, roughly like burnt but without pronouncing the r). |
| ရမျာၚ်:/ɔ̃/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. | ရမျာၚ်:/õ/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
son; nom[၁၃] |
roughly like don't (American English) or haunt (British English) |
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| Suprasegmentals |
| IPA |
Example | Explanation |
| ရမျာၚ်:/ˈ/This is the international phonetic alphabet symbol. Please refer toInternational Phonetic Alphabet Help Page. |
moyen /mwaˈjɛ̃/[၁၄] |
phrasal stress |
| . |
pays /pe.i/[၁၅] |
syllable boundary |
| ‿ |
les agneaux /lez‿aˈɲo/ |
liaison[၁၆] |