Help:IPA/Czech

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

class="wikitable"

! colspan=3 | Consonants

IPAExamplesNearest English equivalent
align="center" | {{IPA link|b}}

| být, bzukot

| beat

align="center" | {{IPA link|c}}

| lať, těšit, ticho, loď, loďka

| stew (UK)

align="center" | {{IPA link|d}}

| délka, odběr, modlitba

| delta

align="center" | {{IPA link|f}}

| foukat, flétna, kavka, lov

| focus

align="center" | {{IPA link|ɡ}}

| gram, gril, kdo

| gag

align="center" | {{IPA link|ɦ}}

| hořet, hbitost

| ahead

align="center" | {{IPA link|j}}

| jenom

| yellow, boy

align="center" | {{IPA link|ɟ}}

| ďas, děda, dík,

| dew (UK)

align="center" | {{IPA link|k}}

| kolo, ping-pong, který

| scald

align="center" | {{IPA link|l}}

| lak

| lack

align="center" | {{IPA link|l̩}}

| Vltava, kýbl

| little

align="center" | {{IPA link|m}}

| mouka

| mocha

align="center" | {{IPA link|m̩}}

| sedm

| rhythm

align="center" | {{IPA link|n}}

| nyní

| ninny

align="center" | {{IPA link|ɲ}}

| laň, koně, nyní

| canyon

align="center" | {{IPA link|p}}

| pyl, pes, lebka, šváb

| spill

align="center" | {{IPA link|r}}

| robot

| robot (trilled)

align="center" | {{IPA link|r̩}}

| vrba, vichr

| lover (US, trilled)

align="center" | {{IPA link|r̝}}

| řeka, řvát

| No English equivalent; simultaneous {{IPAblink|r}} and {{IPAblink|ʒ}}

align="center" | {{IPA link|r̝̊}}

| chřest, keř

| No English equivalent; simultaneous {{IPAblink|r̥}} and {{IPAblink|ʃ}}

align="center" | {{IPA link|s}}

| stůl, krása, zkáza, kaz

| stole

align="center" | {{IPA link|ʃ}}

| šelest, štěstí, muž, vážka

| shell

align="center" | {{IPA link|t}}

| ten, matka, led, podkova

| stand

align="center" | {{IPA link|ts}}

| cena, pocta

| bats

align="center" | {{IPA link|tʃ}}

| čas, kočka, poněva

| chase

align="center" | {{IPA link|v}}

| vítr, vdova

| village

align="center" | {{IPA link|x}}

| chomout, prach, nehty,

práh

| loch

align="center" | {{IPA link|z}}

| zima, uzda, sdružení

| zoo

align="center" | {{IPA link|ʒ}}

| žár, kaž

| sabotage

colspan="3" | Marginal consonants
align="center" | {{IPA link|dz}}

| kamikadze, leckdo

| heads

align="center" |{{IPA link|dʒ}}

| bán, léčba

| jab

align="center" | {{IPA link|ŋ}}

| Hanka

| sing

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! colspan=3 | Vowels

IPAExamplesNearest English equivalent
align="center" | {{IPA link|ä|a}}

| matka

| apple (UK)

align="center" | {{IPA link|ä|aː}}

| máma

| father

align="center" | {{IPA link|ɛ}}

| let, světlo

| let

align="center" | {{IPA link|ɛː}}

| létat

| fairy

align="center" | {{IPA link|ɪ}}

| klid, byl

| kid

align="center" | {{IPA link|iː}}

| klít, být

| clean

align="center" | {{IPA link|o̞|o}}

| pod

| story (short)

align="center" | {{IPA link|o̞|oː}}

| móda

| story (long)

align="center" | {{IPA link|u}}

| kup

| loop

align="center" | {{IPA link|uː}}

| úroda, kůlna

| fool

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! colspan=3 | Diphthongs

IPAExamplesNearest English equivalent
align="center" |{{IPA|au}}

| auto

|tower

align="center" |{{IPA|ɛu}}

| euro

|roughly like go (some dialectsThese dialects include Southern England (including Received Pronunciation), English Midlands, Australian, New Zealand, the Southern American, Midland American, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Western Pennsylvania and younger Californian English. Other dialects of English, such as most other forms of American English, Northern England English, Welsh English, Scottish English and Irish English, have no close equiavalent vowel.); in other dialects, somewhat like eh-oo elided into a single syllable

align="center" |{{IPA|ou}}

| louka

|goal

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! IPA !! Other

align="center" |{{IPA link|ˈ}}

| Primary stress. Stress falls on the first syllable of a word.

align="center" |{{IPA link|.}}

| Syllable break, e.g. nauka [ˈna.uka] is three syllables, not two.

See also

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

Notes

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Bibliography

{{refbegin}}

  • {{citation

|last=Dankovičová

|first=Jana

|year=1999

|chapter=Czech

|title=Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide to the Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet

|place=Cambridge

|publisher=Cambridge University Press

|isbn=0-521-65236-7

|pages=70–74

|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_ces_phon-3

}}

  • {{Citation

|last1=Šimáčková

|first1=Šárka

|last2=Podlipský

|first2=Václav Jonáš

|last3=Chládková

|first3=Kateřina

|year=2012

|title=Czech Spoken in Bohemia and Moravia

|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association

|volume=42

|issue=2

|pages=225–232

|doi=10.1017/S0025100312000102

|url=http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/katerina/documents/illustration-of-Czech.pdf

}}

{{Refend}}

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