Category:Phonetic guides
Here is a list of articles in the category Phonetic guides of the Social portal. Some languages' writing systems do not provide enough information about the pronunciation of words or have a significant number of words/word forms where it is not provided. To provide the information about the pronunciation to children or adult learners, these languages use additional scripts or a modified script, written next/above/below/before/after the main text. Phonetic guides are used when the intended audience may not have mastered reading without them - language education texts for children, foreigners or dialect speakers; when the correct pronunciation is considered very important - religious texts, some poetry, dictionaries for disambiguation purposes. It can be used when certain words are known to be difficult - geographical or personal names or when the pronunciation is counter-intuitive.
Some major languages with difficult writing systems and the most common phonetic guides used (the International Phonetic Alphabet may of course be used for any language):
- Arabic - Harak تكات), also known as Tashkīl (تشكيل) - vowel marks.
- Chinese - Pinyin (汉语拼音) (mainland China ), Zhuyin Fuhao (注音符号) (Taiwan) (also called Bopomofo ㄅㄆㄇㄈ). Cantonese may use a number of romanizations for the same purpose but this is not standardized.
- English - uses a number of respelling systems or transcriptions.
- Hebrew - Niqqud, also known as Nekudot (נִקּוּד) - vowel marks.
- Japanese - Furigana (振り仮名) (usually written as small Hiragana (平仮名,) above or next to the main text)
Pages in category "Phonetic guides"
The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
