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Single Vowel phonemes

No. Phonetic
transcription
Urdu
sound
Orthographic transcription meaning
1
Short /I/

Brick,bandwidth,quill,
quit,knit,bit,bin,silly,flip,hiss,clip,ping,
shrill, chin, river, whisper, give.

2
Short /e/ Ned ,red ,Ted, wed ,bled ,fled ,Fred, sled ,end
,lend ,mend ,send ,tend ,blend ,spend trend ,
stem, rent ,sent ,tent ,vent ,spent

3
Short
/ /

Would, hook, look, brook, crook, cook, loaf,

shoot, loot, put, soot

4
Long
/u:/

Glue, broom, clue, smooth, blue, rumor, bloom,

beautiful, hoon, attitude, snoop,

5
long
/:/

Corn, faun, course, more, morning, caught,

autumn, walk,

6
/a:/ Advance,palm,cant,balm,card,laugh,hard,far,as
k,last,bar,harbour

7
//

patch, hash, mash, crash, squash, brag, clash,

rabbit, packet, jacket

8
//

Dog, rotten ,box, hot, wanted, watches, robin,

profit, scholar, honest, beyond


9
sharp/^/

Buck, truck, pluck, brush, hut, nut, gut, suck,

junk, none, hug, bug, love

10
/: /

Purse, burn, firm, bird, heard, blur, curve, hurt,

merge

11
/i: / Cream,sen,breeze,freeze,leap,squeeze,sneeze,s
heath,heath,wreath,keep

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12
// Beyond, above, about, ahead, abase, again,
cooper, individual .entertain, amaze,innocent,
ingot