Indic Letters

The consonant sounds of 15 Indic languages, laid out by where your mouth makes them. Pick your home language, then slide to compare it with another. Press a letter to hear both and see what your mouth does.

Home language

What the marks mean
  • the language has a letter for this sound
  • said, but not written with its own letter
  • written, but said like another letter
  • some speakers use it
  • the other language has it, yours does not
  • !robot voice may be wrong; press to hear a real word

Which sounds each language has comes from PHOIBLE (1 to 5 descriptions per language). Letter sounds are a robot voice (espeak-ng). Example words and their meanings come from Wiktionary; words without ⚙ are real speakers from Wikimedia Commons and Lingua Libre. Bishnupriya has no PHOIBLE or Wiktionary data, so its cells come from the robot voice alone. Credits and licenses · Source