Help:IPA/Breton
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Short description: Wikipedia key to pronunciation
 | This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Breton on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Breton 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 its value without establishing consensus on the talk page first. |
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Breton language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{IPA-br}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
See Breton dialects for a more thorough discussion of regional variation.
| IPA | Examples | English approximation |
|---|---|---|
| b | bag | best |
| x | sac'h | roughly like loch in Scottish English |
| ɣ | troc'hañ | Spanish razgo |
| d | don | doe |
| f | fri | face |
| ɡ | gad | got |
| h | had | hot |
| ʒ | jot | measure |
| k | kazh | scan |
| l | lann | lean |
| ʎ | kuilh | roughly like million |
| m | mab | mother |
| n | noz | need |
| ŋ | anken | camping |
| ɲ | kignez | roughly like canyon |
| p | per | spouse |
| r | roue | trilled r |
| ʁ | roughly like loch (Scottish English) 'but voiced, like gh in Scottish Gaelic' | |
| s | skol | sack |
| ʃ | sachañ | shine |
| t | tal | sty |
| v | aval | view |
| z | azen | zeal |
| Semivowels | ||
| j | yod | yet |
| w | gwenn | wet |
| ɥ | kuit | like a simultaneous wet and yet |
| IPA | Examples | English approximation |
|---|---|---|
| a | kas | trap |
| ɑː | tad | bra |
| e | boest | hey |
| eː | per | |
| ɛ | gell | best |
| ɛː | berr | red |
| i | pik | see |
| iː | biz | bee |
| o | pok | go |
| oː | dor | law (RP and Australian) |
| ɔ | korn | off |
| ɔː | torr | dog |
| y | butun | roughly like Scottish shoot |
| yː | uvel | roughly like Scottish shoes, like German über |
| ə | ebeul (regional) | roughly like bird (RP) (no r-colouring) |
| ø | peulvan | roughly like bird (no r-colouring) |
| øː | eur | roughly like herd (no r-colouring), like German schön |
| œ | feurm | roughly like hurt (no r-colouring), like French neuf |
| u | toull | too |
| uː | tour | pool |
| Nasal vowels | ||
| ã | amzer | roughly like on (American English), nasalized [ɒ] or [ɑ]. rendez-vous |
| ãː | anat | |
| ẽ | renk | |
| ẽː | enez | |
| ɛ̃ | peñs | roughly like man (RP); nasalized [æ] or [ɛ] |
| ɛ̃ː | eñvor | |
| ĩ | biñs | |
| ĩ | fiñval | like Hindi नहीं |
| ɔ̃ | tonn | roughly like bone (American English); nasalized [o] or [ɔ] |
| ɔ̃ː | ton | |
| ỹ | puñs | |
| ỹː | unan | |
| œ̃ | feunteun | |
| œ̃ː | deun | |
| IPA | Examples | English approximation |
|---|---|---|
| ai | eye | |
| oi | boy | |
| ɔʊ | botoù | follow |
| ei | eil | ray |
| au | glav | house |
| ɔu | paour | |
| eu | bev | eh-oo or ey-oo |
| wɑ | koad | |
| we | boued | |
| ɥi | skuizh | |
| iu | liv |
Voiced and voiceless alternations
| Voiced | /p/ | /f/ | /t/ | /s/ | /ʃ/ | /k/ | /x/ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voiceless | /b/ | /v/ | /d/ | /z/ | /ʒ/ | /ɡ/ | /ɣ/ |
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