Afrikaans phonology
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Help:IPA/Afrikaans
.
System of sounds for the Afrikaans language
This article contains
phonetic transcriptions
in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
(IPA)
. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see
Help:IPA
. For the distinction between
[ ]
,
/ /
and ⟨
⟩, see
IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters
.
Afrikaans
has a similar phonology to other
West Germanic languages
, especially
Dutch
.