Help:IPA/Albanian

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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Albanian pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and {{section link|Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation#Entering IPA characters}}.

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! colspan="4" | Consonants

scope="col" | IPA

! scope="col" | Orthography

! scope="col" | English approximation

!Examples

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|b}}bbat

|bujtinë

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|cç|c}}qchance

|qytet

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|d}}ddebt

|direk

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|dz}}xgoods

|xibërrishtë

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|dʒ}}xhjet

|xhevahir

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|ð}}dhthen

|dhellak

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|f}}ffar

|faleminderit

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|ɡ}}ggo

|galdohet

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|h}}hhat

|histori

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|j}}jyes

|jetë

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|ɟʝ|ɟ}}gjjar

|gjueti

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|k}}kscar

|kur

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|l}}llean

|lojë

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|ɫ}}llbull

|llaçkë

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|m}}mman

|mënyrë

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|n}}nnot

|nën

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|ɲ}}njcanyon

|njeri

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|ŋ}}ngbang

|ardhang

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|p}}pspend

|puna

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|r}}rrrolled rThe contrast between flapped r and trilled rr is the same as in Spanish. English does not phonemically have either sound.

|rrushi

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|ɾ}}rAmerican atom

|refuzoj

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|s}}sson

|sigurt

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|ʃ}}shshow

|shko

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|t}}tstand

|tahmin

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|ts}}chats

|capitje

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|tʃ}}çThe letter {{angbr|ç}} is sometimes written {{angbr|ch}} due to technical limitations or because of its use in English for the same sound and its analogy to the other digraphs {{angbr|xh}}, {{angbr|sh}}, and {{angbr|zh}}. Usually, it is written simply {{angbr|c}} or, more rarely, {{angbr|q}}, with the context resolving any ambiguities.chin

|çmendur

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|v}}vvan

|vërtetë

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|z}}zzip

|zinxhir

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|ʒ}}zhvision

|zhulicë

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|θ}}ththin

|thuaj

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! colspan="4" | Vowels

width="15%" scope="col" | IPA

! scope="col" | Orthography

! scope="col" | English approximation

!Examples

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|a}}afather

|kaq

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|ɛ}}ebed

|me

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|ə}}ëabout

|për

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|i}}iseed

ift

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|ɔ}}rowspan="2" | ooff (Tosk)

|noc

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|o}}story (Gheg)

|lloj

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|u}}ucool

|nuk

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPAlink|y}}ysomewhat like cute

|plym

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colspan="3" | Suprasegmentals

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width="15%" scope="col" | IPA

! scope="col" | Examples

! scope="col" | Explanation

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style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|ˈ}}gjahtar {{IPA|[ɟahˈtaɾ]}}

| primary stress (placed before the stressed syllable)

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See also

  • {{Clc|Pages with Albanian IPA|pages}}

Citations

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General and cited references

  • {{Cite web |title=Albanian language, alphabets and pronunciation |url=http://www.omniglot.com/writing/albanian.htm |website=Omniglot.com}}

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