After ই hrôssho i or ঈ dirgho i, য় makes the sound (y as in yam).The combination এয়ে eye is pronounced like a doubly long e.For example, shoa “to sleep” is spelled শোয়া, not *শোআ. Because the vowels অ shôre ô, আ shôre a, and এ e cannot occur in the middle of a word, য় is used with vowel diacritics to represent those sounds.Though in formal speech they are pronounced as flaps, most colloquial speakers pronounce them similarly to র bôy shunno rô. ড় ḍôy shunno ṛo and ঢ় ḍhôy shunno ṛho are forms of ড ḍô and ঢ ḍhô used between vowels. ![]() স donto shô also represents the sound in loanwords, especially from Arabic, Persian, and English. Additionally, শ talobbo shô and স donto shô make the sound before other consonants. All three have the default pronunciation of, like the sh in sham. There are three sibilants, or s-like sounds, in Bengali.
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