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Wikipedia:IPA for Albanian

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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Albanian pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.

See Albanian language for a more thorough look at the sounds of Albanian.

Consonants

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IPADescriptionWritten asPronounced as in
pVoiceless bilabial plosivepTemplate:Bold dark reden
bVoiced bilabial plosivebTemplate:Bold dark redat
tVoiceless alveolar plosivetTemplate:Bold dark redan
dVoiced alveolar plosivedTemplate:Bold dark redebt
cVoiceless palatal plosiveqTemplate:Bold dark redute
ɟVoiced palatal plosivegjarTemplate:Bold dark redue
kVoiceless velar plosivekTemplate:Bold dark redar
ɡVoiced velar plosivegTemplate:Bold dark redo
tsVoiceless alveolar affricatechaTemplate:Bold dark red
dzVoiced alveolar affricatexgooTemplate:Bold dark red
Voiceless postalveolar affricateçTemplate:Bold dark redin
Voiced postalveolar affricatexhTemplate:Bold dark redet
θVoiceless dental fricativethTemplate:Bold dark redin
ðVoiced dental fricativedhTemplate:Bold dark reden
fVoiceless labiodental fricativefTemplate:Bold dark redar
vVoiced labiodental fricativevTemplate:Bold dark redan
sVoiceless alveolar fricativesTemplate:Bold dark redon
zVoiced alveolar fricativezTemplate:Bold dark redip
ʃVoiceless postalveolar fricativeshTemplate:Bold dark redow
ʒVoiced postalveolar fricativezhviTemplate:Bold dark redion
hVoiceless glottal fricativehTemplate:Bold dark redat
mBilabial nasalmTemplate:Bold dark redan
nAlveolar nasalnTemplate:Bold dark redot
ɲPalatal nasalnjoTemplate:Bold dark redon
ŋVelar nasalngbaTemplate:Bold dark red
jPalatal approximantjTemplate:Bold dark redes
lAlveolar lateral approximantlTemplate:Bold dark redean
ɫVelarized alveolar lateral approximantllbaTemplate:Bold dark red
rAlveolar trillrrSpanish peTemplate:Bold dark redo
ɾAlveolar taprSpanish peTemplate:Bold dark redo

Notes:

  • The palatal stops /c/ and /ɟ/ occur in English as allophones of /k/ and /ɡ/ before front vowels. Palatal stops are phonemic in many languages including Hungarian and Icelandic.
  • The palatal nasal /ɲ/ corresponds to the Spanish ñ and the French and Italian gn. It is pronounced as one sound, not a nasal plus a glide.
  • The ll sound is a velarised lateral, close to English dark L.
  • The contrast between flapped r and trilled rr is the same as in Spanish. English does not have either of the two sounds phonemically. The tt in butter is a flapped r for most North Americans and Australians.
  • The letter ç is sometimes written ch due to technical limitations because of its use in English sound and its analogy to the other digraphs xh, sh, and zh. Usually it is written simply c or more rarely q with context resolving any ambiguities.
IPADescriptionWritten asPronounced as in
iClose front unrounded vowelisTemplate:Bold dark redd
ɛOpen-mid front unrounded vowelebTemplate:Bold dark redd
aOpen front unrounded vowelafTemplate:Bold dark redther, Spanish cTemplate:Bold dark redsa
əSchwaëTemplate:Bold dark redbout
ɔOpen-mid back rounded vowelolTemplate:Bold dark red, tTemplate:Bold dark redss
yClose front rounded vowelyFrench tTemplate:Bold dark red, German Template:Bold dark redber
uClose back rounded vowelubTemplate:Bold dark redt