Help:IPA/Zhuang

This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Zhuang on Wikipedia.

It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Zhuang in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.

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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Standard Zhuang 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 Standard Zhuang for a more thorough look at the sounds of Zhuang.

Consonants
IPA	Examples	English approximation
ɓ	lajmbwn	Like bat said with a gulp. See implosive consonants.
ɕ	caet	Somewhat like British consume
ɗ	ndaej	Like debt said with a gulp.
f	faencung	fast
ɣ	roek	Spanish trigo
h	haj	hat
j	ityiengh	yes
k	ga	scan
kʷ	gvaengz	quality
kʲ	gyaeuj	queue
l	lingz	luck
m	sam	man
mʲ	myaeg	mute
n	vunz	no
ɲ	nyaen	canyon
ŋ	ngeih	sing, tank
ŋʷ	ngvanh	wrong way
p	bet	span
pʲ	byaek	pure
t	da	stop
θ	sam	thing
w	va	war, vote (In northern Zhuang dialects)
ʔ	not written	the catch in uh-oh
ˀj	^{[example needed]}	yes, but glottalised
ˀw	^{[example needed]}	war, but glottalised

Vowels
IPA	Examples	English approximation
a	ndaej	cat
aː	va	bra
e	genz	mate (Scottish)
eː	^{[example needed]}	play (Scottish)
i	cib	happy
o	gyoengq	story (short)
oː	gouj	story (long)
u	couh	cool
ɯ	wngdang	Like cool, but with lips unrounded

Tones
IPA	Description	Examples
/ǎ/ /˨˦/	rising	son
/a᷆/ /˧˩/	low falling	mwngz
/a̋/ /˥/	high level	hwnj
/a̋/ /˥/	high checked	bak (coda is p/t/k)
/â/ /˦˨/	falling	max
/a᷄/ /˧˥/	high rising	gvaq
/ā/ /˧/	mid level	dah
/ā/ /˧/	mid checked	bag (coda is b/d/g)