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The phoneme inventory of the Marathi language is similar to that of many other Indo-Aryan languages. An IPA chart of all contrastive sounds in Marathi is provided below. == Vowels == Vowels in native words are: There are no nasal vowels. Like other alphasyllabaries, Devanagari writes out syllables by adding vowel diacritics to consonant bases. The table below includes all the vowel symbols used in Marathi, along with a transliteration of each sound into Latin script and IPA. Marathi furthermore contrasts with . There are two more vowels in Marathi to denote the pronunciations of English words such as of in ''act'' and in ''all''. These are written as and . Marathi retains several features of Sanskrit that have been lost in north-Indian Sanskrit-based languages such as Hindi and Bengali, especially in terms of pronunciation of vowels and consonants. For instance, Marathi retains the original Sanskrit pronunciation of , , and . However, as was done in Gujarati, Marathi speakers tend to pronounce ऋ somewhat similar to , unlike most other Indic languages which changed it to (e.g. the original Sanskrit pronunciation of the language's name was ', while in day-to-day Marathi and Gujarati it is '. In other Indic languages, it is closer to '). Spoken Marathi allows for conservative stress patterns in words like राम (''rama'') with an emphasis on the ending vowel sound, a feature that has been lost in Hindi. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marathi phonology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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