Following the orthographic conventions of the Benin government, the following are the orthographic symbols used to represent phonetic symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
Orthography | IPA |
c | tʃ |
h | ɦ |
ny | ɲ |
y | j |
an | ã |
ɛn | ɛ̃ |
in | ĩ |
ɔn | ɔ̃ |
un | ũ |
After the nasal consonants m, n, ny, and ŋ, vowels are assumed to be nasalized and are therefore not followed by an n. For example, [mã] is written as ma.