| حرف صحیحs | | IPA | Shan | New Tai Lü | English approximation | | [[|b]] | ၿ | ᦢ,ᦥ | abash | | [[|d]] | ၻ,ꩨ | ᦡ,ᦤ | ado | | [[|f]] | ၾ | ᦚ,ᦝ | food | | [[|ɡ]] | ၷ | — | good | | [[|h]] | ႁ | ᦠ,ᦣ | head | | [[|j]] | ယ | ᦊ,ᦍ | yak | | [[|k]] | ၵ | ᦂ,ᦅ | scan | | [[|kʰ]] | ၶ | ᦃ,ᦆ | can | | [[|l]] | လ,ꩮ | ᦜ,ᦟ | leaf | | [[|m]] | မ | ᦖ,ᦙ | much | | [[|n]] | ၼ | ᦐ,ᦓ | not | | [[|ŋ]] | င | ᦄ,ᦇ | bang | | [[|ɲ]] | ၺ | — | canyon | | [[|p]] | ပ | ᦔ,ᦗ | span | | [[|pʰ]] | ၽ | ᦕ,ᦘ | pan | | [[|r]] | ရ,꩹ | ᦣ | roughly like water (American English) | | [[|s]] | ၸ | ᦉ,ᦌ | sue | | sʰ | သ | — | — | | [[|ʃ]] | သျ | — | shoe | | [[|t]] | တ,ꩦ | ᦎ,ᦑ | stable | | [[|tʰ]] | ထ,ꩧ,ꩪ,ꩩ | ᦏ,ᦒ | table | | [[|ts]] | ၸ | ᦈ,ᦋ | Betsy | | [[|tsʰ]] | ၶျ | — | cheese | | [[|θ]] | ႀ | — | thing | | [[|v]] | — | ᦛ,ᦞ | village | | [[|w]] | ဝ | ᦛ,ᦞ | way | | [[|x]] | — | ᦃ,ᦆ | loch in Scottish English | | [[|z]] | ၹ | — | zebra | | [[|ʔ]] | ဢ | ᦀ,ᦁ | the catch in uh-oh | | | | Tone | | IPA | Description | a
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ā | mid [aː˧] | | à | low [a˨˩] or [a˩] | | â | falling [a˥˩] (Tai Lü only) | | a̰ | creaky falling [a̰˥˩] (Shan only) | | á | high [a˥] | | ǎ | rising [a˨˦] (Shan only) | | a᷄ | high rising [a˧˥] (Tai Lü only) | | a᷅ | lowing rising [a˩˧] (Tai Lü only) | | | مصوتs | | IPA | Shan | New Tai Lü | English approximation | | Short vowels | | [[|a]] | unmarked | ᦰ | cut | | [[|e]] | ေ,ဵ | ᦵ | roughly like say | | [[|ɛ]] | ႄ, ႅ | ᦶ | roughly like bat | | [[|i]] | ီ | ᦲ | happy | | [[|o]] | ူဝ် | ᦷ | go without u sound (shorter) | | [[|ɔ]] | ေႃ, ွ | ᦸ | lot | | [[|u]] | ု, ူ | ᦳ | loot (shorter) | [[|ɯ]]
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[[|ɨ]] | ို | ᦹ | good | [[|ɤ]]
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[[|ə]] | ိူ | ᦵᦲ | roughly like hurt (shorter) | | Long vowels | | aː | ၢ, ႃ | ᦱ | bra | |
