Help:IPA/Greenlandic

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Greenlandic 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.

See Greenlandic phonology and Inuit phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Greenlandic and other Inuit languages.

Consonants[a]
IPA Examples nearest English equivalent
çː agguut hue
affaq for
ɣ igaaq Spanish fuego
j qajaq yes
k kukik ski
l aleqa land
ɬː illu By getting the tongue up to the roof and giving a quick breath out; Welsh llwyd.
m mannik man
n nuna now
ŋ angut sing
ɴ arnaq [b] like ng but further down the throat
p putu spoil
q qajaq like k but further down the throat
ʁ erinaq French rester
s sisamat soon
t tallimat stop
ts timi, atsa [c] cats
v savik love
χː tarraq like Scottish loch but further down the throat
Vowels
IPA Examples nearest English equivalent
a aja cat
aak mad
ɑ qajaq[d] like father, but shorter
ɑː aaq[d] father
ɜ erneq[d] between bet and about
ɜː meeraq[d] between bear and burn
i isi meat
kiinaq knee
ɔ oqaq[d] off
ɔː sooq[d] more
u pukusuk cool (short)
ʉ nuna[e] goose (some dialects[f])
kuuk cool (long)
y ipi[g] roughly like meat, but with rounded lips
Diphthongs
ai iliorarpai irate


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