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| {{IPA|ɛ}} || ] || e || b{{bold dark red|e}}d | | {{IPA|ɛ}} || ] || e || b{{bold dark red|e}}d | ||
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| {{IPA|a}} || ] || a || |
| {{IPA|a}} || ] || a || st{{bold dark red|a}}ck, ] c{{bold dark red|a}}sa | ||
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| {{IPA|ə}} || ] || ë || {{bold dark red|a}}bout | | {{IPA|ə}} || ] || ë || {{bold dark red|a}}bout | ||
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| {{IPA|ɔ}} || ] || o || l{{bold dark red|aw}} |
| {{IPA|ɔ}} || ] || o || l{{bold dark red|aw}} | ||
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| {{IPA|y}} || ] || y || ] t{{bold dark red|u}}, ] {{bold dark red|ü}}ber | | {{IPA|y}} || ] || y || ] t{{bold dark red|u}}, ] {{bold dark red|ü}}ber |
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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Albanian pronunciations in Misplaced Pages articles.
See Albanian language for a more thorough look at the sounds of Albanian.
Consonants
Notes:
- The palatal stops /c/ and /ɟ/ occur in English as allophones of /k/ and /ɡ/ before front vowels. Palatal stops are phonemic in many languages including Hungarian and Icelandic.
- The palatal nasal /ɲ/ corresponds to the Spanish ñ and the French and Italian gn. It is pronounced as one sound, not a nasal plus a glide.
- The ll sound is a velarised lateral, close to English dark L.
- The contrast between flapped r and trilled rr is the same as in Spanish. English does not have either of the two sounds phonemically. The tt in butter is a flapped r for most North Americans and Australians.
- The letter ç is sometimes written ch due to technical limitations because of its use in English sound and its analogy to the other digraphs xh, sh, and zh. Usually it is written simply c or more rarely q with context resolving any ambiguities.