Topic summary
Burmese orthography
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Burmese alphabet.
Orthography
Burmese orthography has preserved all the nasalized finals [-n,-m,-ŋ], which have merged to [-ɰ̃] in spoken Burmese. Similarly, Burmese orthography has preserved the consonantal finals [-s,-p,-t,-k], which have since been reduced to [-ʔ]. Burmese has retained a number of phonetically redundant graphemes ( used primarily in words of Indic etymology; phoneme when word is voiced), including separate letters that are used to spell words of Indic origin: