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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Vietnamese language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. There are two major standards, one of Hanoi and one of Saigon. Each makes distinctions that the other does not; represented here are the central dialects that make the distinctions of both.

See Vietnamese phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Vietnamese.

IPA	Examples
Consonants
ʔ	'
ɓ	b [ʔb]
c	ch [tɕ] (Saigon final [t] after e/i/y ^[1])
ɗ	đ [ʔd]
f	ph
h	h
j	y (may follow all vowels but e/i/y ^[1])
k	c
kp	c (after u, ô) [kʷ]
l	l
m	m
n	n (Saigon final [ŋ] after a/o/u ^[2])
ɲ	nh (Saigon final [n] after after e/i/y ^[1])
ŋ	ng
ŋm	ng (after u, ô) [ŋʷ]
p	p
s	x
ʂ	s (Hanoi [s])
t	t (Saigon final [k] after a/o/u ^[2])
tʰ	th
ʈʂ	tr [ʈ] (Hanoi [c])
v	v (Saigon [j])
w	u (Hanoi initial [ʔw]) (may follow all vowels but a/o/u ^[2])
x	kh
ɣ	g (before a/o/u ^[2])
z	d (Saigon [j])
ʐ	r (Hanoi [z])
ʒ	g (before e/i ^[1])

IPA	Examples
Monophthongs
a	ă [ɐ]
aː	a [ɐː]
e	ê
ɛ	e
ə	â [ɜ]
əː	ơ [ɤː]
i	i, y
ɨ	ư [ɯ]
o	ô
ɔ	o
u	u

IPA	Examples
Diphthongs
jə	iê, final ia
ɰə	ươ, final ưa [ɉə]
wə	uô, final ua
Vj	(see /j/ above)
Vw	(see /w/ above)
CʷjV	uy: khuyên

IPA	Examples
Tones
a ə	a (Hanoi [˧], Saigon [˧])
â ə̂	à (Hanoi [˧˩], Saigon [˧˩])
ǎ ə̌	á (Hanoi [˧ˀ˥], Saigon [˧˥])
ã ə̃^[3]	ả (Hanoi [˧˩˧], Saigon [˧˩˧])
ǎˀ ə̌ˀ	ã (Hanoi [˧ˀ˥], Saigon [˧˩˧])
âˀ ə̂ˀ	ạ (Hanoi [˧ˀ˩], Saigon [˧˩˧ˀ])
ə́k^[4]	ấc (Hanoi [], Saigon [])
ə̀k^[4]	ậc (Hanoi [˨], Saigon [])

[edit] Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d The front vowels, [i, e, ɛ, j], which are based on the letters e, i, and y.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d The non-front vowels, which are based on the letters a, o, and u.
^ This is actually the IPA diacritic for a nasal vowel. It is used here because the IPA diacritic for dipping tone, which differs only in being angular in shape, is not widely supported by IPA fonts.
^ ^a ^b Before a final /p, t, c, k/, the six tones of Vietnamese are reduced to two.

[FV-0] The front vowels, [i, e, ɛ, j], which are based on the letters e, i, and y.

[BV-1] The non-front vowels, which are based on the letters a, o, and u.

[2] This is actually the IPA diacritic for a nasal vowel. It is used here because the IPA diacritic for dipping tone, which differs only in being angular in shape, is not widely supported by IPA fonts.

[entering-3] Before a final /p, t, c, k/, the six tones of Vietnamese are reduced to two.

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