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International Phonetic Alphabet keys
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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

IPA Written as English approximation
p p Template:Bold dark reden
b b Template:Bold dark redat
t t Template:Bold dark redan
d d Template:Bold dark redebt
c q Roughly like RP Template:Bold dark reduesday
ɟ gj Roughly like RP Template:Bold dark redue
k k Template:Bold dark redar
ɡ g Template:Bold dark redo
ts c haTemplate:Bold dark red
dz x gooTemplate:Bold dark red
tʃ ç Template:Bold dark redin
dʒ xh Template:Bold dark redet
θ th Template:Bold dark redin
ð dh Template:Bold dark reden
f f Template:Bold dark redar
v v Template:Bold dark redan
s s Template:Bold dark redon
z z Template:Bold dark redip
ʃ sh Template:Bold dark redow
ʒ zh viTemplate:Bold dark redion
h h Template:Bold dark redat
m m Template:Bold dark redan
n n Template:Bold dark redot
ɲ nj oTemplate:Bold dark redon
ŋ ng baTemplate:Bold dark red
j j Template:Bold dark redes
l l Template:Bold dark redean
ɫ ll baTemplate:Bold dark red
r rr rolled r
ɾ r buTemplate:Bold dark reder (American English)

Vowels

IPA Written as English approximation
i i sTemplate:Bold dark redd
ɛ e bTemplate:Bold dark redd
a a fTemplate:Bold dark redther
ə ë Template:Bold dark redbout, thTemplate:Bold dark redg
ɔ o lTemplate:Bold dark red
y y Similar to made with rounded lips
u u bTemplate:Bold dark redt

Notes

  • The palatal stops /c/ and /ɟ/ are similar to the English allophones of /k/ and /ɡ/ before front vowels.
  • 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 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.
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