Help:IPA/Sorbian

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Lower Sorbian and Upper Sorbian pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

Consonants
IPA Examples Nearest English equivalent

L

U
b bałma (U)[a] boot
bjakać (U)[a] beautiful
ɕ šćit (L)[a][b][c] sheep (L)
d d (U)[a] do
[d] media
dz licba (L)[a] lads
[a] jig (L)
ak (U)[a][c] jug
f fabula (U)[a] fool
[d] few
ɡ gag (U)[a] good
ɡʲ [d] argue
ɣ [a] good, but without the tongue touching the roof of the mouth
h habla (U) hood
[d] heed
j jadro (U) yes
k kabat (U)[a] scar
[d] skew
l lac (U) lack
[d] failure
m m (U) moot
mjaso (U) mute
n nabać (U) noon
hromadźernja (U) vinyard
ŋ [e] sang
ŋʲ [e] sing
p pad (U)[a] span
pjany (U)[a] spew
r ʁ rad (U)[f] American atom (L)
French rouge (U)
ʁʲ rjadka (U)[f] American catty (L)
French rime (U)
s sadło (U)[a] soup
ʃ šach (U)[a][c] rush
t tajić (U)[a] stand
[d] stew (RP)
[a][c] chip (L)
ts całta (U)[a] cats
ćahać (U)[a][c] chop
v vatikanski (U)[a] voodoo
[d] view
w wačka (U) boot, but without lips completely closed
wjaznyć (U) between wet and yet
x čichawa (U) loch (Scottish); ugh
[d] huge
z zabić (U)[a] zoo
ʑ [a][c] prestige (L)
ʒ žaba (U)[a][c] pleasure
Vowels
IPA Examples Nearest English equivalent

L

U
a pask (U) father
ɛ pesimistiski (U)[d][g] met
ɪ pĕseń (U)[d][g][h] kit
i pisać (U)[g] meet
ɨ pysk (U)[g] roses (for some dialects)
ɔ posyć (U) off
ʊ póstniski (U)[h][i] pull
u pusty (U) pool
IPA Other

L

U
ˈ Primary stress. Stress tends to fall on the first syllable of a word.
. Syllable break.


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