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The letter  a  is implied after a consonant with no vowel symbol.
The symbol  virāma  () indicates that there is no final vowel.  k
The letters above should be pronounced as follows::
a –like the  o  in hot; sometimes like the  o  in go; final  a  is usually silent.
\bar{a}  – like the  a  in far.,  \bar{a}  –
i, I –like the ee in meet...
ក្នុង គ្រោះថ្នាក់ កាត់សិក្ខា មិន ព្រឹក ដោយ ប្រើ ប្រាស់ សុខ និង សំភារៈ ដែល អ្នក នឹង ដាក់ ប្រាស់ សុខ និង សំភារៈ នឹង អ្នក នឹង ចូល អ្
۲ – like the  ri  in  rim ...
i) – like the  ree  in  reed ...
e – like the  ai  in pain; rarely like  e  in bet.
ai – like the  oi  in boil... ai – like the  oi  in pain...
O – like the o in go...
au –like the ow in owl...
m =  anusvāra  / like the  ng  in song.
h = ( visarga ) a final  h  sound like in Ah...
\hat{n} = (\text{candra-bindu})  a nasal  n  sound like in the French word  bon .
k = like the k in kite_initial
kh –like the  kh  in Eckhart...
Kit - hike the kit in got... g -like the g in got...
gh –like the  gh  in big-house...
ဂွဲဂါ = ဂါးနီ ဟု ရှိပါ ပါးနီ = ဂံ = ဂါးနီ ဟု ရှိပါ ပါးနီ = ဂံ = ဂါးနီ ဟု ရှိပါ ပါးနီ = ဂံ = ဂါးနီ ဟု ရှိပါ ပါးနီ = ဂံ = ဂါးနီ ဟု
c – like the  ch  in  chalk ...
ch –like the  chh  in much-haste...
chi = like the  chi  in j – like the  j  in joy...
j = like tie) in college-hall.
n̄ –like the  n  in bunch... n̄ –like the  n  in bunch...
if –like the  f  in bulk. 
    tf –like the  t  in  talk .
1  — like the  th  in hot-house...
d –like the  d  in  dawn .
dh –like the  dh  in good-house.
ဂုံ --- like the  n  in  gnaw .
t—as in  falk  but with the tongue against the the teeth.
the teeth. th—as in hor-house but with the tongue against the teeth.
d—as in  dawn  but with the tongue against the teeth.
dh-as in  good-house  but with the tongue against the teeth.
n—as in  nor  but with the tongue against the teeth.
p –like the  p  in pine.
ph –like the  ph  in philosopher.
b – like the  b  in  bird .
bh – like the  bh  in rub-hard.
m –like the  m  in  mother .
y –like the j in jaw. ष
y –like the y in year.
r –like the r in run.
1 – like the linguistics to be like the linguistics to be like the linguistics to be like the linguistics to be like the linguist
v – like the  b  in  bird  or like the  w  in dwarf.
v. mate tite b m tite of m sis, s –like the sh in shop.
s –like the s in sun.
h–like the  h  in  home .
This is a general guide to Bengali pronunciation. The Bengali transliterations in this book accurately show the original Bengali spelling of the text. One should note, however, that in Bengali, as in English, spelling is not always a true indication of how a word is pronounced. Tape recordings of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda chanting the original Bengali verses are available from the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, 3959 Landmark St., Culver City, California 90230.