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.
^ abcdeIn many of the dialects that have an apicalrhotic 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].
^Swedish /ɧ/ is a regionally variable sound, sometimes [xʷ], [ɸˠ], or [ʂ].
^/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".
^ abcdeBefore /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].
^ abcdefghi/ɵ, ʉː, ʊ, uː/ are compressed vowels, whereas /œ, œː, øː, ʏ, yː/ are protruded; see roundedness for details.