The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Gujarati 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 Gujarati phonology for a more thorough discussion of the sounds of Gujarati.

Consonants
IPAGujaratiIASTEnglish approximation
bbbat
bhclubhhouse
β[1]bhsomewhat like averse
dddog
ð[1]dhother
dhredhead
ɖAmerican English bird
ɖʱḍhAmerican English birdhouse
jjack
dʒʱzhedgehog
f[1]phafraid
ɡggate
ɡʱghloghouse
ɣ[1]ghgo, but without completely blocking airflow on the g
hhead
ɦhahead
jyyak
kkscold
khcold
llleaf
ɭlsomewhat like Merlin
mmmuch
nnnot
ɳsomewhat like burner
ɲñcanyon
ŋbank
ppspan
phpan
ɾratom (American English)
ɽ[2]somewhat like murder
ɽʱ[2]ḍhNo English equivalent
ɽ̃[2]as above, but nasal
s[3]ssue
ʂ[3]somewhat like worship
ʃ[3]śsheep
ttstop
thtop
ʈsomewhat like court
ʈʰṭhsomewhat like tree
ccatch
tʃʰchcheese
ʋvvine
Vowels
IPAGujaratiIASTEnglish approximation
ɑઆ, કાābra
æcash
eએ, કેepay
ɛઍ, કૅâbed
əઅ, કaabout
iઇ/ ઈ, કિ/ કીisee
oઓ, કોostory
ɔઑ, કૉôoff
uઉ/ ઊ, કુ/ કૂulook
əjઐ, કૈaikite
əʋઔ, કૌauhouse


Other symbols
IPAGujaratiIASTNotes
◌̃nasal vowel ([õː], etc.)
◌̃◌̤murmured vowel[4]
ːLength: Vowels are long when nasal (e.g. [moʈʈũː]
ˈstress
(placed before stressed syllable)

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b c d The voiced aspirated stops /ɡʱ, dʱ, bʱ/ and /pʰ/ have spirant allophones [ɣ, ð, β, f].Cardona & Suthar (2003:665)
  2. ^ a b c The voiced retroflex stops and the nasal /ɖʱ, ɖ, ɳ/ have flapped allophones [ɽʱ, ɽ, ɽ̃]. Intervocalically all three are flapped. The stops are also flapped when before or after other consonants.Mistry (1997:659) The stops are unflapped initially, geminated, and postnasally; and flapped intervocalically, finally, and before or after other consonants.Masica (1991:97).
  3. ^ a b c While there is dialectal variation in this regard, for Wikipedia transcriptions [ʃ] appears contiguous with palatal segments and [ʂ] appears before retroflex consonants: [spəʂʈ] ('clear').Mistry (1997:658)
  4. ^ Gujarati contrasts murmured and non-murmured vowels, except for /e/ and /o/.Cardona & Suthar (2003:662) Mistry (2003:116).

References edit

  • Cardona, George; Suthar, Babu (2003), "Gujarati", in Cardona, George; Jain, Dhanesh (eds.), The Indo-Aryan Languages, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-77294-5
  • Masica, Colin (1991), The Indo-Aryan Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-29944-2
  • Mistry, P.J. (1997), "Gujarati Phonology", in Kaye, A.S (ed.), Phonologies of Asia and Africa, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, ISBN 1-57506-019-1
  • Mistry, P.J. (2003), "Gujarati", in Frawley, William (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, vol. 2 (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-516784-8

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