३४२
Šššš  Califaria-carifaria
The letter  n  is implied after a consonant with no vowel symbol.
The symbol  virāma  (❖) indicates that there is no final vowel.  क  क
The letters above should be pronounced as follows:
a – like the  o  in  hot ; sometimes like the  o  in  go ; final  o  is usually silent.
آن لیکل ہے کہ وہ لائن آپس میں ہو گیا۔
i. I = like the ee in meet.
1, 1 = like the ee in rule...
d, d = like the d in rim., r = like the r in rim.,
i) – like the  ree  in  reed ...
! = hard the ree hi reed: 
 e = like the  ai  in pain; rarely like  e  in bet...
C = \text{like the } a_i  in point  i ,  a_i = \text{like the } o_i  in point  i .
all = like the old tool 
o = like the old in go...
Q = like the o th go.
•	ဆီ = like the ow in ow!. 
•	m = ( အပ်နှစ်ဆီဆီ ) like the ng in song..
h –  (visarga)  a final  h  sound like in Ah.
if = ( candra-bindu ) a nasal  n  sound like in the French word  bon .
k = like the  k  in  k ite .....k
kh –like the  kh  in Eckhart...
g –like the g in got...
g  - mare tile g in got. 
 gh - like the  gh  in big- ho use..
ဦး - အစ အစ နှစ် မှ မှ 
ဦး - မြေ အစ မှ မှ 
ဦး - မြေ အစ မှ မှ
c – like the  ch  in  chalk ...
- like the  ch  in  chak . 
 - like the  chh  in much-haste.
ch = like the  chi  name j –like the  j  in  joy ...
j – like the / m foy:
jh – like the  geh  in college-hall..
n – like the  n  in bunch.....
ti –like the  t  in  ta lk...
th –like the  th  in hot-house..
d = like the d in dawn
ပုံ = ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ၊ ပုံ
t—as in  ralk  but with the tongue against the the teeth
the teeth. th—as in hot- 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  b  ird.
b) = like the  bh  in rub-hard.
On = like the  on  in rub-ran - m - like the  m  in mother.
ni = like the  m  in  motin   \downarrow  y = like the  j  in  jaw .   \downarrow
y = like the y in year. y = like the y in year. y = like the y in year.
y – like the r in run. r – like the r in run.
1 – like the / in law.
1 = like the  b  in dwarf. 
    v = like the  b  in  bird  or like the  w  in dwarf.
V = like the b in bind of lin s', 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.