Help:IPA/Nepali
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Short description: Wikipedia key to pronunciation
 | This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Nepali on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Nepali 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. |
Charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Nepali pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{IPA-ne}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
See Nepali phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Nepali.
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Due to a process of h-deletion in some words, ɦ may be replaced by a retroflex flap [ɽ] if words are pronounced with long vowels e.g. [paaɽ] analyzed phonemically as /pʌɦaɖ/. Additionally, [ɽ] can occur if ɖ or ɖʱ are flapped in postvocalic position.
- ↑ /r/ is usually trilled [r] but may be tapped [ɾ] when in intervocalic position.
- ↑ /s/ phonetically may be either [s] or [ʃ].
Bibliography
- Masica, Colin (1991), The Indo-Aryan Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-29944-2, https://books.google.com/books?id=J3RSHWePhXwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=indo-aryan+languages.
- Hutt, Michael; Subedi, Abhi (1999), Teach Yourself Nepali (2003 ed.), McGraw-Hill, ISBN 978-0-07-142468-4.
- Acharya, Jayaraj (1991), A Descriptive Grammar of Nepali and an Analyzed Corpus, Georgetown University Press, ISBN 0878400737, https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_JoCIRN_xwC
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