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Bengali

Consonants 

		Bilabial	Dental	Palatal	Retroflex	Velar	Glottal
Stop	Unaspirated	p/b	t/d	c/j	t/d	k/g
	Aspirated	[ph]/[bh]	[th]/[dh]	[ch]/[jh]	[th]/[dh]	[kh]/[gh]
Fricative			s	S	s		h
Nasal		m	n		n	N
Liquid			r			R

 
Vowels 

i		u
e		o
	a

Nasalization is distinctive for all vowels.
 

English (USA)

Consonants
 

	Bilabial	Interdental	Alveolar	Alveo-palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	p/b		t/d		k/g	(')
Fricative	f/v*	T/D	s/z	S/Z		h
Affricate				c/j
Nasal	m		n		N
Liquid			l	r**
Glide	w			y

 *labiodental fricatives
 ** approximant varying from alveolar to retroflex

Vowels

Tense 

i		u
e		o
	a

Lax 

I		U
E	* , ^
æ		A

 

Consonants
 

	Bilabial	Dental	Palatal	Velar
Stop	p/b	t/d		k/g
Fricative	f/v*	s/z	S/Z
Nasal	m	n	ñ
Liquid	[4]**	l	[ll]	r***
Glide	w		y

*labiodental fricatives
**labio-palatal liquid
***usually uvular trill; dental trill in some dialects

Vowels

Tense  (Front vowels are distinguished for roundness.)
 

i/ü		u
e/ö		o
	a

Lax
 

E		O
		A

Nasal
 

E~		o~
		A~

 

German

Consonants
 

	Bilabial	Dental	Alveo-palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	p/b	t/d		k/g	(')
Fricative	f*	s	S	x	h
Affricate	[pf]	[ts]	([tS])
Nasal	m	n
Liquid		l		r**
Glide			y

*labiodental fricative
**uvular trill

Vowels

Tense  (Front vowels are distinguished for roundness.)
 

i/ü		u
e/ö		o
	a

Lax
 

I/Ü		U
E/Ö	*	O
	^

 

Greek

Consonants
 

	Bilabial	Dental	Velar
Stop	p/b	t/d	k/g
Fricative	f/v	s/z	x/[Y]
Nasal	m	n
Liquid		l, r*
Glide	w	y**

*separate phonemes; a lateral liquid and a dental flap (or trill)
**palatal liquid
The voiced stops are rarely found in Greek; they occur primarily in loanwords or as conditioned allophones of the voiceless stops.

Vowels
 

i		u
E		O
	a

 

Consonants
 

	Bilabial	Dental	Palatal	Velar
Stop	p/b	t/d		k/g
Fricative	f/v	s/z	S/Z
Nasal	m	n	ñ
Liquid		l	[ll]
Rhotic		r		R
Glide	(w)		(y)

The two glides are generally realizations of dipthongs beginning with /u/ and /i/, or are found in loanwords, and are therefore not strictly speaking phonemic.

Vowels

Oral

i		u
e		o
E	*	O
	a

Nasal

i~		u~
e~		o~
	a~

Source: The World's Major Languages.