Help:IPA for Talossan

In order to precisely indicate how a written phoneme should be pronounced, the International Phonetic Alphabet is often helpful. For more information about the IPA in general, please see the article at Wikipedia.

Templates

There are three ways to represent the IPA on TalossaWiki.

Template:IPA

This template classifies the enclosed text as "IPA" text, so that other templates or people's personal CSS adjustments can make appropriate changes to its display. Example: {{IPA|lɛˈd͡ʒaʒ}} displays as: lɛˈd͡ʒaʒ

Template:IPA-all

This template takes any IPA transcription and presents it in a standardized and appealing format, with choices of lede and the possibility of including an audio recording. {{IPA-all|lɛˈd͡ʒaʒ|pron|lexhatx.ogg}} displays as: pronounced [lɛˈd͡ʒaʒ] ( )

Template:IPA-t

This template breaks up IPA symbols into separate phonemes, with a pronunciation guide available on mouseover. {{IPA-t|l|E|ˈ|J|a|Z|lexhatx.ogg}} displays as: pronounced: Listenⁱ/lɛˈdʒ[unsupported input]ʒ/

Sounds of Talossan

The Talossan language uses a specific subset of sounds, as represented in IPA. These sounds are indicated below, in the standard IPA format.

Consonants

	bilabial	labio- dental	dental	alveolar	post- alveolar	palatal	labio-velar	velar	glottal
plosive	p  b			t  d				k  ɡ
nasal	m			n		ɲ		ŋ
fricative		f  v	θ  ð	s  z	ʃ  ʒ			x  ɣ	h
affricate					tʃ  dʒ
approximant				ɾ		j	w
lateral approximant				ɬ  l		ʎ

Vowels

	Front	Near- front	Central	Near- back	Back
Close	File:Blank vowel trapezoid.svg i · y ɨ u ɪ       e · ø   o ə ɛ · œ   ɔ æ     a ɑ
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open

Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel.
Speakers who prefer a later pronunciation merge the rounded vowels with the unrounded one.

Key

Phonemes in Talossan words are pronounced roughly as follows.

Note: The IPA stress mark (ˈ) comes before the syllable that has the stress, in contrast to stress marking in pronunciation keys of some dictionaries published in the United States.

Consonants IPA Examples b buy, cab d dye, cad, do ð thy, breathe, father dʒ giant, badge, jam f phi, caff, fan ɡ (ɡ) guy, bag h high, ahead j yes, yacht k sky, crack l lie, sly, gal m my, smile, cam n nigh, snide, can ŋ sang, sink, singer θ thigh, math p pie, spy, cap r rye, try, very s sigh, mass ʃ shy, cash, emotion t tie, sty, cat, atom tʃ China, catch v vie, have w wye, swine hw why z zoo, has ʒ equation, pleasure, vision, beige Marginal consonants x ugh, loch, Chanukah ʔ uh-oh /ˈʔʌʔoʊ/

Vowels IPA Full vowels ... followed by R ɑː palm, father, bra ɑr start, bard, barn, snarl, star (also /ɑːr./) ɒ lot, pod, John ɒr moral, forage æ trap, pad, shall, ban ær barrow, marry aɪ price, ride, file, fine, pie aɪər Ireland, hire (/aɪr./) aɪ.ər higher aʊ mouth, loud, foul, down, how aʊər flour (/aʊr./) aʊ.ər flower ɛ dress, bed, fell, men ɛr error, merry eɪ face, made, fail, vein, pay ɛər square, mare, scarce, cairn, Mary (/eɪr./) eɪ.ər mayor ɪ kit, lid, fill, bin ɪr mirror, Sirius iː fleece, seed, feel, mean, sea ɪər near, beard, fierce, serious (/iːr./) iː.ər freer ɔː thought, Maud, dawn, fall, straw ɔr north, born, war, Laura (/ɔːr./) ɔː.ər sawer ɔɪ choice, void, foil, coin, boy ɔɪər loir (/ɔɪr./) ɔɪ.ər lawyer oʊ goat, code, foal, bone, go ɔər force, more, boar, oral (/oʊr./) oʊ.ər mower ʊ foot, good, full, woman ʊr courier uː goose, food, fool, soon, chew, do ʊər boor, moor, tourist (/uːr./) uː.ər truer juː cued, cute, mule, tune, queue, you jʊər cure juː.ər sewer ʌ strut, mud, dull, gun ʌr borough, hurry ɜr nurse, word, girl, fern, furry Reduced vowels ə Rosa’s, a mission, comma ər letter, perceive ɨ roses, emission (either ɪ or ə) ən button ɵ omission (either oʊ or ə) əm rhythm ʉ beautiful, curriculum ([jʉ]) (either ʊ or ə) əl bottle i happy, serious (either ɪ or iː) ᵊ, ⁱ (vowel is frequently dropped: nasturtium)   Stress Syllabification IPA Examples IPA Examples ˈ intonation /ˌɪntɵˈneɪʃən/, . moai /ˈmoʊ.aɪ/, Windhoek /ˈvɪnt.hʊk/ Vancouveria /væn.kuːˈvɪəriə/ Mikey /ˈmaɪki/, Myki /ˈmaɪ.kiː/ ˌ