Help:IPA/Bulgarian

This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Bulgarian on Wikipedia.

It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Bulgarian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.

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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Standard Bulgarian pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

See Bulgarian phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Bulgarian.

Consonants
IPA	Letters	Examples	English approximation
b	б	баба	box
c	к	кюфте^[1]	cute
d	д	дом	dust
d͡z	дз	дзифт	birds
d͡ʒ	дж	джем	jab
f	ф	филм	fact
ɡ	г	гарван	good
ɟ	г	гяур^[1]	argue
j	й, ь	сойка	yes
k	к	къща	skill
l	л	лимон	leap
ɫ		лош	all
ʎ		любов	million
m	м	море	mocha
n	н	нос	north
ɲ	н	баня	canyon
p	п	пет	speak
r	р	работа	trilled r, like in Spanish
s	с	стол	salt, mask
ʃ	ш	шума	sugar
t	т	тайна	style
t͡s	ц	цар	bats
t͡ʃ	ч	чай	cheese
v	в	вода	view
w	у, л	уиски, лош (colloquial)	water
x	х	хартия	loch (Scottish English)
z	з	зима	zoo
ʒ	ж	жълт	pleasure

Marginal consonants
IPA	Examples	English approximation
ɣ	видях го	between go and ahold
ç	Хюз	huge
ŋ	банка	sing

Vowels
IPA	Letters	Examples	English approximation
a	а	брат	father
ɤ	ъ	кът	plus
ɛ	е	цена	edge
i	и	сив	police
ɔ	о	слон	off
u	у	хубав	pool

Reduced vowels
IPA	Letters	Examples	English approximation
ɐ	а, ъ	щерка, камък	sofa
o	о, у	нещо, уста	thought (RP), coat (Scottish English)

Other symbols
IPA	Description
ˈ	Stress on the following syllable
ˌ	Secondary stress on the following syllable

References

^ ^a ^b Scatton 1984, p. 17.

Sources

Sabev, Mitko (2015). Reduction of unstressed central and back vowels in Contemporary Standard Bulgarian (PDF). Glasgow, UK: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
Scatton, Ernest A. (1984). A Reference Grammar of Modern Bulgarian.
Zhobov, Valdimir (2004). Звуковете в българския език [The Sounds of the Bulgarian Language].

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