Help:IPA for Afrikaans
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This article used to be a joint pronunciation guide for Afrikaans and Dutch. For the pronunciation guide for the latter language, see Help:IPA for Dutch.
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Afrikaans pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.
See Afrikaans phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Afrikaans, as well as dialectal variations that are not represented here.
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Notes[edit]
- ^ /ɡ/ is not a native phoneme of Afrikaans; it occurs only in loanwords like goal or if /k/ is voiced: sakdoek [ˈsɐɡduk]. It also occurs as an allophone of /χ/.
- ^ In some words (such as vanaand), the unstressed allophone of /ə/ is written ⟨a⟩ (Donaldson (1993:4, 6)).
- ^ /əː/ occurs in no other word (Donaldson (1993:7)).
- ^ a b c As phonemes, /iː/ and /uː/ occur only in spieël and koeël, respectively. In other cases, [iː] and [uː] occur as allophones of /i/ and /u/ before /r/. /y/ is also lengthened to [yː] before /r/ (Donaldson (1993:4–6)).
- ^ a b /œː/ and /ɔː/ occur only in a few words (Donaldson (1993:7).
References[edit]
- Donaldson, Bruce C. (1993), "1. Pronunciation", A Grammar of Afrikaans, Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 1–35, ISBN 9783110134261
- Lass, Roger (1987), "Intradiphthongal Dependencies", in Anderson, John; Durand, Jaques, Explorations in Dependency Phonology, Dordrecht: Foris Publications Holland, pp. 109–131, ISBN 9067652970
