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12/bʱ/ is phonetically realised either as [bʱ] or /β/ (phonetically [v~β]) depending on the speaker and variety. /β/ can additionally occur as an allophone of /bʱ/ in foreign loan words e.g. ভিসা [βisa] 'visa'.
12Template:Angbr and Template:Angbr may represent a voiced affricate /dʒ/ in Standard Bengali words of native origin, but they can also represent /z/ in foreign words and names (জাকাত[zakat] 'zakah charity', আজিজ[aziz] 'Aziz'). However, many speakers usually replace /z/ with /dʒ/. Additionally, some words that originally had /z/ are now pronounced with /dʑ/ in Standard Bengali (সবজি [ɕobdʑi] 'vegetable', from Persian sabzi).
↑/ɦ/ may be devoiced to [h] in word-initial or final positions, with [ɦ] occurring medially.
12/pʰ/ is phonetically realised either as [pʰ] or /ɸ/ (phonetically [f~ɸ]) depending on the speaker and variety. /ɸ/ can additionally occur as an allophone of /pʰ/ in foreign loan words e.g. ফ্যান[ɸæn] 'fan'.
↑/r/ is phonetically an alveolar flap [ɾ], alveolar approximant [ɹ] or alveolar trill [r] depending on the variety and speaker.
↑The [j] phoneme occurs in some pronunciations of Bengali vowel clusters, such as নয়ন[nɔjon].
123When preceding a vowel in word-initial positions, /w/ may occur as an allophone of /o/ and /u/, especially in loan words e.g. ওয়াদা [wada] 'promise', উইলিয়াম [wiliam] 'William'.
↑[ɽʱ] only occurs in the individual pronunciation of the letter ঢ় [ɽʱɔ] and some Sanskrit loanwords but is usually pronounced as [ɽ] in ordinary speech.
