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The [[phoneme|phonemic]] inventory of standard Bengali consists of 29 consonants and 7 vowels, as well as 7 [[Nasalization|nasalised vowels]]. The inventory is set out below in the [[help:IPA|International Phonetic Alphabet]] (upper grapheme in each box) and romanisation (lower grapheme).
The [[phoneme|phonemic]] inventory of standard Bengali consists of 29 consonants and 7 vowels, as well as 7 [[Nasalization|nasalised vowels]]. The inventory is set out below in the [[help:IPA|International Phonetic Alphabet]] (upper grapheme in each box) and romanisation (lower grapheme).
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;display: inline-table;"
|+'''Vowels'''
!  ||[[Front vowel|Front]]||[[Central vowel|Central]]||[[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
![[Close vowel|Close]]
|{{lang|bn|ই~ঈ}}<br />{{IPA link|i}}<br />i||  ||{{lang|bn|উ~ঊ}}<br />{{IPA link|u}}<br />u
|-
![[Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]]
|{{lang|bn|এ}}<br />{{IPA link|e}}<br />e||  ||{{lang|bn|ও}}<br />{{IPA link|o}}<br />o
|-
![[Open-mid vowel|Open-mid]]
|{{lang|bn|অ্যা}}<br />{{IPA link|ɛ}} <br />ê ||  ||{{lang|bn|অ}}<br />{{IPA link|ɔ }}<br />ô
|-
![[Open vowel|Open]]
|  ||{{lang|bn|আ}}<br />{{IPA link|ɐ|a}}<br />a ||
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;display: inline-table;"
|+Nasalized vowels
!  ||[[Front vowel|Front]]||[[Central vowel|Central]]||[[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
![[Close vowel|Close]]
|ইঁ~ঈঁ<br />{{IPA|ĩ}}<br />{{IPA|ĩ}}
|  || উঁ~ঊঁ<br />{{IPA|ũ}}<br />{{IPA|ũ}}
|-
![[Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]]
| এঁ<br />{{IPA|ẽ}}<br />{{IPA|ẽ}}
|  || ওঁ<br />{{IPA|õ}}<br />{{IPA|õ}}
|-
![[Open-mid vowel|Open-mid]]
| এ্যাঁ / অ্যাঁ<br />{{IPA|ɛ̃}}
|
| অঁ<br />{{IPA|ɔ̃}}
|-
![[Open vowel|Open]]
|
| আঁ <br />{{IPA|ã}}
|
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+'''Consonants'''
! colspan="3" |
![[Labial consonant|Labial]]
![[Dental consonant|Dental]]/<br />[[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
![[Retroflex consonant|Retroflex]]
![[Palatoalveolar consonant|Palatoalveolar]]
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]
![[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! colspan="3" |[[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
|{{IPA link|m}}|| colspan="2" |{{IPA link|n}}||&nbsp;||{{IPA link|ŋ}}||&nbsp;
|-
! rowspan="4" |[[Plosive consonant|Plosive]]
! rowspan="2" |[[voicelessness|voiceless]]
!<small>[[aspirated consonant|unaspirated]]</small>
|{{IPA link|p}}||{{IPA link|t̪|t}}||{{IPA link|ʈ}}||{{IPA|[[Voiceless palato-alveolar affricate|tʃ]]}}||{{IPA link|k}}||
|-
!<small>[[aspirated consonant|aspirated]]</small>
|{{IPA|pʰ}}~{{IPAplink|f}}||{{IPA|tʰ}}||{{IPA|ʈʰ}}||{{IPA|tʃʰ}}||{{IPA|kʰ}}||
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[voice (phonetics)|voiced]]
!<small>[[aspirated consonant|unaspirated]]</small>
|{{IPA link|b}}||{{IPA link|d̪|d}}||{{IPA link|ɖ}}||{{IPA|[[Voiced palato-alveolar affricate|dʒ]]}}||{{IPA link|ɡ}}||
|-
!<small>[[aspirated consonant|aspirated]]</small>
|{{IPA|bʱ}}~{{IPAplink|v}}||{{IPA|dʱ}}||{{IPA|ɖʱ}}||{{IPA|dʒʱ}}||{{IPA|ɡʱ}}||
|-
! colspan="3" |[[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
|  || colspan="2" |{{IPA link|s}}
|{{IPA link|ʃ}}||  ||[[Voiced glottal fricative|ɦ]]
|-
! colspan="3" |[[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
| ({{IPA link|w}}) ||{{IPA link|l}}||  || ({{IPA link|j}}) ||  ||
|-
! colspan="3" |[[Rhotic consonant|Rhotic]]
|  ||{{IPA|r}}||{{IPA|ɽ~ɽʱ}}||  ||  ||
|}