It may be difficult to distinguish the Ṭ- and T-series, but practice makes perfect! However, your tongue should be touching your teeth directly rather than leaving any space like we would in American English. The T-series is dental, so you put your tongue on your teeth where you would for the th in think. ঠ ṭhô ṭh ( t in tap, with aspiration).ট ṭô ṭ ( t in tap, except it’s unaspirated).The dot under the letters indicates that they are post-alveolar rather than dental. This means that you put the tip of your tongue a teeny bit behind where you would if you were pronouncing the English letter d. The Ṭ-series consonants are post-alveolar (not completely retroflex like in other South Asian languages!). In some Persian, Arabic, and English loanwords, the letter জ borgiyo jô represents the sound even in educated speech, such as in জাকাত jakat/zakat “charity” or জোন jon/zon “zone”. In a lot of dialects, especially in Bangladesh, চ cô and ছ chô are pronounced like, while জ borgiyo jô and ঝ jhô are pronounced like. The letter ঞ ĩô is exceedingly rare, and it is mostly used in the name মিঞা minya “Miah/Mian”. ঞ: ĩô ny ̣ (kinda like a nasalized ny like in ca nyon).The C-series consonants are palato-alveolar, so your tongue should be touching your hard palate like you would for English or Spanish ch. If you need a refresher, check out the last lesson.įor each consonant, I’ll give the letter itself, its name, its transliteration, the IPA in brackets, and a pronunciation example in parentheses.
Remember the distinction between aspirated and unaspirated consonants from the last lesson. In this lesson, we’ll go over the C-, Ṭ-, T-, and P- series of consonants. Welcome to another Bengali alphabet lesson! In previous lessons, we covered the vowels and the K-series of consonants.
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