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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Wandamen language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.
| Consonants | ||
|---|---|---|
| IPA | Examples | English approximation |
| b | aibo | abate |
| β | kavi | between bat and vat |
| d | madiawi | day |
| g | maŋgar[1] | garden |
| j | yai[2] | yearn |
| k | kambu | kitten |
| m | romi | men |
| n | niau | name |
| ŋ | waŋgar | hang |
| p | pibata | peas |
| r | teri | trilled as in Spanish and Italian |
| s | apose | erase |
| t | tawa | tap |
| w[2] | wona | women |
| Non-Native Consonants | ||
| d͡ʒ | gaja | gem |
| l | apel | tell |
| Vowels | ||
|---|---|---|
| Monophthongs | ||
| IPA | Examples in Wandamen | English Approximation |
| a | pam | cot (General American) |
| e | ret | play |
| i | musi | tea |
| o | mor | sold |
| u | kambu | boot |
| Diphthongs | ||
| au | rau | cow |
| ai | ai | tie |
| ei | memei | hay |
| oi | amoi | coy |
| ui | dui | Roughly like chewy |
Notes[edit]
Bibliography[edit]
- Gasser, Emily A., "Windesi Wamesa Morphophonology" (2014). Linguistics Graduate Dissertations. Paper 1. http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ling_graduate/1
- Gasser, Emily. 2015. Wamesa Talking Dictionary, pilot version. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://www.talkingdictionary.org/wamesa