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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Belarusian language 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}}.

See Belarusian phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Belarusian.

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|+ Consonants

IPACyrillicIPACyrillicBelarusian has a contrast between palatalized ("soft") and unpalatalized ("hard") consonants. Palatalized consonants, denoted by a superscript j, {{angbr IPA|ʲ}},are pronounced with the body of the tongue raised toward the hard palate, like the articulation of the y sound in yes. {{IPA|/j/}} is always soft, but {{IPA|/d, t, d͡ʐ, t͡ʂ, r, ʂ, and ʐ/}} are always hard.English approximation
style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|b}}

| {{lang|be|б}}

| style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA|bʲ}}

| {{lang|be|б}}

| boot; beautiful

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|d̪|d}}

| colspan="3" | {{lang|be|д}}

| do

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|d̪͡z̪|d͡z}}

| {{lang|be|дз}}

| style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA|d͡zʲ}}

| {{lang|be|дз}}

| birds, adze

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|d͡ʐ}}

| colspan="3" | {{lang|be|дж}}

| style="text-align: left;" |jug

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|f}}

| {{lang|be|ф}}

| style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA|fʲ}}

| {{lang|be|ф}}

| fool; few

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|ɣ}}

| {{lang|be|г}}

| style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|ɣ˖|ɣʲ}}

| {{lang|be|г}}

| Spanish higo

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|k}}

| {{lang|be|к}}

| style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|k̟|kʲ}}

| {{lang|be|к}}

| scold, skew

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|ɫ̪|l}}

| {{lang|be|л}}

| style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA|lʲ}}

| {{lang|be|л}}

| loot; lute (in dialects without yod-dropping)

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|m}}

| {{lang|be|м}}

| style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA|mʲ}}

| {{lang|be|м}}

| moot; mute

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|n̪|n}}

| {{lang|be|н}}

| style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA|nʲ}}

| {{lang|be|н}}

| noon; canyon

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|p}}

| {{lang|be|п}}

| style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA|pʲ}}

| {{lang|be|п}}

| span, spew

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|r}}

| colspan="3" | {{lang|be|р}}

| trilled r, like in Spanish

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|s̪|s}}

| {{lang|be|с}}

| style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA|sʲ}}

| {{lang|be|с}}

| soup; assume (in dialects without yod-dropping)

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|ʂ}}

| colspan="3" | {{lang|be|ш}}

| style="text-align: left;" |shore

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|t̪|t}}

| colspan="3" | {{lang|be|т}}

| stool

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|t̪͡s̪|t͡s}}

| {{lang|be|ц}}

| style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA|t͡sʲ}}

| {{lang|be|ц}}

| cats

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|t͡ʂ}}

| colspan="3" | {{lang|be|ч}}

| style="text-align: left;" |child

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|v}}

| {{lang|be|в}}

| style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA|vʲ}}

| {{lang|be|в}}

| voodoo; view

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|x}}

| {{lang|be|х}}

| style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|x̟|xʲ}}

| {{lang|be|х}}

| Bach; huge (for some dialects)

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|z̪|z}}

| {{lang|be|з}}

| style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA|zʲ}}

| {{lang|be|з}}

| zoo; resume (in dialects without yod-dropping)

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|ʐ}}

| colspan="3" | {{lang|be|ж}}

| rouge

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|+ Marginal consonants

IPACyrillicIPACyrillicEnglish approximation
style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|ɡ}}

| {{lang|be|г}}, {{lang|be|ґ}}

| style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|ɡ˖|ɡʲ}}

| {{lang|be|г}}, {{lang|be|ґ}}

| goo; argue

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|+ Vowels

IPA

! Cyrillic

! English equivalent

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|a}}

| {{lang|be|а}}, {{lang|be|я}}Unstressed {{IPA|/ɛ/}} and {{IPA|/ɔ/}} are reduced to {{IPA|[a]}}. Unlike Russian, this is reflected in writing.

| between fat and fatherCloser to fat in most accents of British and Irish English; closer to father in most accents of North American, Australian and New Zealand English.

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|ɛ}}

| {{lang|be|э}}, {{lang|be|е}}

| met

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|i}}

| {{lang|be|і}}{{IPA|[i]}} and {{IPA|[ɨ]}} are in complementary distribution: {{IPA|[i]}} occurs after soft consonants; {{IPA|[ɨ]}} occurs after hard consonants.

| meat

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|ɨ}}

| {{lang|be|ы}}

| roses (for some dialects)

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|ɔ}}

| {{lang|be|о}}, {{lang|be|ё}}

| born

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|u}}

| {{lang|be|у}}, {{lang|be|ю}}

| cool

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|+ Semivowels

IPA

! Cyrillic

! English equivalent

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|j}}

| {{lang|be|й}}The "soft" vowel letters {{angbr|{{lang|be|я, е, і, ё, ю}}}} represent a {{IPA|/j/}} and a vowel when they are initial or after other vowels.

| yes, boy

style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA link|w}}

| {{lang|be|ў}}{{IPA|/v/}} and {{IPA|/l/}} merge into {{IPA|/w/}} {{angbr|{{lang|be|ў}}}} before consonants and at the end of words.

| water, cow


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|+ Other symbols

IPAExplanation
style="text-align: center;" | {{IPA|ˈ}}

| Stress (placed before the stressed syllable)

style="text-align: center;" | ː

| GeminationTen Belarusian consonants can be contrastively geminated: {{IPA|/d͡zʲː, d͡ʐː, lʲː, nʲː, sʲː, ʂː, t͡sʲː, t͡ʂː, zʲː, ʐː/}}. (doubled consonant)

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Notes

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See also

  • {{clc|Pages with Belarusian IPA|pages}}

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