Help:IPA/Romanian

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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Romanian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Romanian 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 value without establishing consensus on the talk page first. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between , / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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Wikipedia key to pronunciation of Romanian

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

See Romanian phonology and Romanian alphabet for a more thorough look at the sounds of Romanian.

Consonants IPA Examples in Romanian English approximation b ban about d dop today dʒ ger gender f foc face ɡ gol, unghie again h horn hat k cal, chip, kilogram, quasar skip l lună love m mic moon n nor name ŋ lung long p pas span r rac, mare curd (Scottish English) s sare sun ʃ șarpe shape t tare stop ts țară cats tʃ cer choose v val, watt voice z zid zone ʒ jar measure Non-native consonants ɲ Saligny roughly like canyon

Vowels IPA Examples in Romanian English approximation a apă roughly like father e erou roughly like bet ə română about i inel, mie beet ɨ înspre, cârnat roses (for some English dialects) o oraș law (British English) u uda, dual fool Non-native vowels ɑ̃ Henri rendez-vous, roughly like on ɛ̃ chemin de fer coq au vin, roughly like man ø bleu, loess, chemin de fer roughly like sir y ecru, führer roughly like few   Semivowels IPA Examples in Romanian English approximation j iarnă, creioane, rai, yoga you or boy w băcăuan, dulău, Twitter wine or cow Diphthongs e̯a beată, Andreea short followed by full ; similar to yard e̯o vreo short followed by full ; similar to yawn o̯a foarte, găoace short followed by full ; similar to wagon   Other symbols IPA Examples Explanation ˈ dulău primary stress (placed before the stressed syllable) ˌ extraordinar secondary stress . mie syllable marker, generally used between vowels in hiatus ʲ rupi palatalization (placed after the palatalized consonant)

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} The affricates may be written more precisely with tie-bars: , , , but they are omitted in transcriptions as they do not display correctly in all browsers. However, the affricates contrast with the plosive–fricative sequences: , and . Usually, the spelling of the Romanian word indicates the pronunciation, with the affricates spelled ț, c, g, with one letter, and the sequences spelled ts, tș, dj, with two. However, personal names are the most common exceptions.
2. ^ Not a separate phoneme but an allophone of /n/ before velars.
3. ^ ^{a b} The approximants /j/ and /w/ can appear before and after vowels, including the diphthongs /e̯a/ and /o̯a/, in almost any combination.
4. ^ Palatalization occurs only with a single final i.

References

• Chițoran, Ioana (2001), The Phonology of Romanian: A Constraint-based Approach, Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN 3110167662

See also

• Category:Pages with Romanian IPA (1,839)