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Daniel Jones. Edited by Peter Roach, James Hartman and Jane Setter. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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letter J

UKT: The pronunciation of English [ j ] ought to be simple, yet, it has become one of the most confusing for Myanmars, because of:
• The name of English consonant [ j ] in IPA representation is /ʤeɪ/, in American linguistic /ǰeɪ/, and in Myanmar .
• The name of English consonant [ g ] in IPA representation is /ʤiː/, in American linguistic /ǰiː/, and in Myanmar
• The name of English consonant [ y ] in IPA representation is /waɪ/, and in Myanmar it is close to .
• The English word <Jesus> is represented in IPA as /ˈʤiː.zəs/. In Bama it is close to , yet the transliteration in Myanmar coined by the Western missionaries is  with a clear English [ y ] sound. This is because the early Western missionaries to Myanmar were non-English and in their languages the letter of Roman alphabet [ j ] had the sound [ya] or .

p291. In general, the English consonant letter [ j ] is pronounced /ʤ/ (or represented by IPA as /ʤ/ and  by some American linguists as / ǰ /), e.g.:

		<jam>	/ʤæm/		- sound
		<raj>	/rɑːʤ/		- sound

(The latter can also be pronounced /rɑːʒ/ in British English.)

In some exceptional cases [ j ] is pronounced / j /, e.g.

<hallelujah>

/ˌhæl.ɪˈluː.jə/

- sound

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letter K

p297. In general, the consonant letter [k] is pronounced /k/, e.g.:

This is also the case in the digraph [kh], e.g.:

In words beginning with [kn], [k] is usually silent, e.g.:

However, where the [k] appears before an [n] at a morpheme boundary, it is pronounced, e.g.:

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UKT notes

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