The Pali Alphabet & Pronunciation Guide | Learn Pāli Basics

A tutorial on how to pronounce the Pali alphabet [in Roman script], its phonetics, and why the niggahīta turns into a nasal - featuring how Pali characters are pronounced - with animations of where in the mouth the sounds are made! Pali Vowels sounds 03:08 Pali Consonant sounds 06:49 Relevant Links: Tutorial on Pali alphabet, niggathīta & PED dictionary: Pāli Scripts: IPA charts with audio: Seeing Speech Lab: This is part of the foundation for a series of introductory Pali Language tutorials for anyone wishing to learn the Pali language of the Theravada Buddhist canon. They are aimed at the absolute beginner and are in English. If you like what you see and you want to be kept up to date with tutorials then please subscribe and don’t forget to hit the bell tab or you won’t get all notifications! For more information check out my Pali Language channel: View the playlists: Or go to the Pali Studies blog for more in-depth Pali language grammar & study resources: Please help transcribe and/or translate this video so more students can benefit here: Metta!
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