Help:IPA/Uzbek

Short description: Wikipedia key to pronunciation

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Uzbek language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{IPA-uz}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

Consonants IPA Orthography Cyrillic Arabic Approximation b b б ب above d d д د width dʒ j ж ژ/ج jeep ɸ f ф ف fish but with both lips ɡ g г گ agree h h ҳ ھ/ح hat j y й ي yes k k к ك skip l l л ل lamb m m м م mail n n н ن new ŋ ng нг ڭ song p p п پ spin q q қ ق No English equivalent r r р ر reign but trilled; like Spanish perro ʁ gʻ ғ غ like French Paris s s с س saw ʃ sh ш ش ship t t т ت stop tʃ ch ч چ check w v в ۋ wet χ x х خ like Scottish English loch but uvular z z з ز zebra ʔ ʼ ъ ء/ئ uh-oh

Vowels IPA Orthography Cyrillic Arabic Approximation æ a а ە bat ɒ o о و/ا hot e e э, е ې sell i i и ى beet o oʻ ў و like South African, Australian and New Zealand English yawn but shorter; New Zealand English bird u u у ۇ toot

Notes

• Letters g and k become palatalized (/gʲ/ and /kʲ/ respectively) before the vowels u and a.
• Letters b, v, g, d, z become devoiced when they're the final letters of words.
• t becomes silent if it appears right after another consonant.
• /ʒ/ (for "j"), /o/ (for "o") and /v/ (for "v") are only found in Russian loanwords.