Help:IPA for Swedish

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The chart below shows how the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Swedish pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. The pronunciation is based primarily on Central Standard Swedish. See Swedish phonology for details about pronunciation.

Consonants
IPA Examples English approximation
b About this sound bok book
ɕ About this sound kjol sheep
d About this sound dop dad
ɖ About this sound nord[1] order
f About this sound fot foot
ɡ About this sound god good
h About this sound hot hat
ɧ About this sound sjok[2]
somewhat like shoe (varies regionally)
j About this sound jord, About this sound Sverige yoyo
k About this sound kon cone
l About this sound lov lack
ɭ About this sound rl[1] somewhat like carl
m About this sound mod mode
n About this sound nod node
ɳ About this sound barn[1] turner
ŋ About this sound ng long
p About this sound pol pole
r About this sound rov[3] a trilled r when articulated clearly or in slow or formal speech; in normal speech, it is usually a tapped r or an alveolar approximant
s About this sound sot soot
ʂ About this sound torsdag[1] marshal (in some dialects)
t About this sound tok tea
ʈ About this sound parti[1] cartel
v About this sound våt vote
Rare sounds
IPA Examples English approximation
w webb web
IPA Examples English approximation
Zlatan, Bratislava father
œɪ Creutz, Reuter void
Vowels
IPA Examples English approximation
ɑː About this sound mat bra
a About this sound matt RP hat
About this sound hel hear
ɛː About this sound häl[4] RP pair
ɛ About this sound häll[4] sell
æː About this sound ära[4] ham
æ About this sound ärt[4] trap
About this sound sil leaf
ɪ About this sound sill hill
About this sound mål floor
ɔ About this sound moll RP pot
øː About this sound nöt[5] somewhat like RP burn
œː About this sound öra[4][5]
œ About this sound nött[5] somewhat like RP nurse
ʉː About this sound ful[5] like Scottish do
ɵ About this sound full[5] somewhat like put
About this sound bot[5] boot
ʊ About this sound bott[5] put
About this sound syl[5] no English equivalent; German long ü
ʏ About this sound syll[5] no English equivalent; German short ü
unstressed
ə About this sound be about
Stress and tone
IPA Examples Explanation
ˈa anden
[ˈanːdɛn]
tone 1 / acute accent:
• single stress with single falling tone in Stockholm: [ˈânːdɛn]
ˈa.ˈa anden
[ˈanːˈdɛn]
tone 2 / grave accent:
• double stress with double falling tone in Stockholm: [ˈânːˈdɛ̂n]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e In many of the dialects that have an apical rhotic consonant, a recursive Sandhi process of retroflexion occurs wherein clusters of /r/ and dental consonants /rd/, /rl/, /rn/, /rs/, /rt/ produce retroflex consonant realizations: [ɖ], [ɭ], [ɳ], [ʂ], [ʈ]. In dialects with a guttural R, such as Southern Swedish, these are [ʁd], [ʁl], [ʁn], [ʁs], [ʁt].
  2. ^ Swedish /ɧ/ is a regionally variable sound, sometimes [], [ɸˠ], or [ʂ].
  3. ^ /r/ varies considerably in different dialects. It is pronounced alveolar or similarly in virtually all dialects except South Swedish dialects where it is uvular, similar to the Parisian French "r". At the beginning of a syllable, it can also be pronounced as a fricative [ʒ] as in English "genre" or "vision".
  4. ^ a b c d e Before /r/, the quality of non-high front vowels is changed: /ɛː/ and /ɛ/ are lowered to [æː] and [æ]; whereas the close-mid /øː/, and mid /œ/ are lowered to open-mid [œː] and [œ].
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i /ɵ, ʉː, ʊ, uː/ are compressed vowels, whereas /œ, œː, øː, ʏ, yː/ are protruded; see roundedness for details.

Bibliography[edit]

External links[edit]

http://lexin.nada.kth.se/lexin/