User:Stephen MUFC/IPA for Cornish

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Cornish pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. The Kernewek Kemmyn variety of Cornish is used here.

Consonants IPA Grapheme English approximation b b be d d do dʒ j just ð dh the f f find ɡ g get h h have j y you k k can l l like m m me n n no ŋ ng thing p p please ɾ r right but a tap s s see t t time tʃ ch chance θ th think v v very w w was ʍ hw what x gh Scottish loch

Monophthongs IPA Grapheme English approximation a~aː a sand ɛ~ɛː e well œː eu bird iː i tea ɔ~ɔː o Scottish English toe ɤ~oː oe broken uː ou pool yː u cute ɪ~ɪː y bit

Notes

1. A vowel is considered short when it comes before double consonants (e.g. ⟨nn⟩, ⟨mm⟩, and so on), or before any two consonants.
   
2. ⟨e⟩ is pronounced as [ɛ] before double consonants and in unstressed syllable, and is geminated elsewhere.
   
3. Some vowels have a tendency to be reduced to schwas [ə] in unstressed syllables

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