Help:IPA/Fijian

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

style="background:none;" | style="vertical-align:top;" | {| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em; text-align: center;" ! colspan="4"| Consonants
IPA	Orthography	English approximation	Fijian example
{{IPAlink|β}} | style="text-align:center;" | v | style="text-align:left;" |vase, but with both lips | style="text-align:left;" | vinaka ({{IPA|/βi.na.ka/

})

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|{{IPAlink|j}}

| style="text-align:center;" | y (often silent)

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

| style="text-align:left;" | yaqona ({{IPA|/jaˈᵑɡona/|}}

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|fSounds {{IPAslink|f}}, {{IPAslink|h}}, {{IPAslink|p}} used only in loanwords and certain dialects

|fOnly in loanwords

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

| style="text-align:left;" | ({{IPA|/fa.ða/|}}

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|{{IPAlink|ð}}

| style="text-align:center;" | c

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

| style="text-align:left;" | moce ({{IPA|/mo.ðe/|}})

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|h

|h

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

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

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|{{IPAlink|k}}

| style="text-align:center;" | k

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

| style="text-align:left;" | kakua ({{IPA|/ka.ku.a/|}})

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|{{IPAlink|l}}

| style="text-align:center;" | l

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

| style="text-align:left;" | liu ({{IPA|/li̯u/|}})

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|{{IPAlink|m}}

| style="text-align:center;" | m

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

| style="text-align:left;" | me ({{IPA|/me/|}}

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|{{IPA|mb}}

| style="text-align:center;" | b

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

| style="text-align:left;" | bula ({{IPA|/ᵐbu.la/|}}

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|{{IPAlink|n}}

| style="text-align:center;" | n

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

| style="text-align:left;" | na ({{IPA|/na/|}}

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|{{IPA|nd}}

| style="text-align:center;" | d

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

| style="text-align:left;" | Nadi ({{IPA|/ˈnan.di/|}})

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|{{IPA|ɳɖ}}

| style="text-align:center;" | nr

| style="text-align:left;" | Above, but with the tongue curled or pulled back

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

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|{{IPA|ndʒ}}

| style="text-align:center;" | j, di ({{IPA|[ndʒi]}}), z

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

| style="text-align:left;" |ziza {{IPA|[ndʒi.ndʒa]}}

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|{{IPAlink|ŋ}}

| style="text-align:center;" | g

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

| style="text-align:left;" | turaga ({{IPA|/tu.ra.ŋa/|}})

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|{{IPA|ŋɡ}}

| style="text-align:center;" | q

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

| style="text-align:left;" | Voreqe ({{IPA|/βoˈreŋ.ɡe/}})

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|p

|p

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

| style="text-align:left;" | pusi ({{IPA|/pu.si/|}}

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|{{IPAlink|r}}

| style="text-align:center;" | r

| style="text-align:left;" | (trilled)

| style="text-align:left;" | Ositerelia ({{IPA|/o.si.te.re.li.a|}})

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|{{IPAlink|s}}

| style="text-align:center;" | s

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

| style="text-align:left;" | Suva ({{IPA|/su.βa/|}})

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|{{IPAlink|t}}

| style="text-align:center;" | t

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

| style="text-align:left;" | Lautoka ({{IPA|/lɔu̯.to.ka/|}})

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|{{IPAlink|tʃ}}

| style="text-align:center;" | j, ti ({{IPA|[tʃi]}})

| style="text-align:left;" | church, venture

| style="text-align:left;" | Josaia ({{IPA|/tʃoˈsɛi.a/|}}), Viti ({{IPA|/βitʃi/|}})

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|{{IPAlink|ɰ}}

| style="text-align:center;" | w

| style="text-align:left;" | between Spanish fuego and water

| style="text-align:left;" | lewa ({{IPA|/le.ɰa/|}})

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! colspan=3 | Stress

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! IPA !! Example !! Note

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

| style="text-align:left;" | siga {{IPA|[ˈsiŋa]}},
cauravou {{IPA|[ðɔuraˈβou]}}

| style="text-align:left;" | Stress falls on the penultimate syllable if the final vowel is short,
on the final syllable if it has a long vowel or a diphthong.

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class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 2em; text-align: center;" ! colspan="3"| Vowels
IPA	Orthography	English approximation
{{IPAlink|a}} | align="left" rowspan=2 | a | rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | cat
{{IPAlink|aː}}
{{IPAlink|e}} | align="left" rowspan=2 | e | rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | pet
{{IPAlink|eː}}
{{IPAlink|i}} | align="left" rowspan=2 | i | rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | seat
{{IPAlink|iː}}
{{IPAlink|o}} | align="left" rowspan=2 | o | rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | more
{{IPAlink|oː}}
{{IPAlink|u}} | align="left" rowspan=2 | u | rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | cool
{{IPAlink|uː}}
colspan="3"| Diphthongs
{{IPA|ei}} | style="text-align:left;" | ei | style="text-align:left;" | American may
{{IPA|eu}} | style="text-align:left;" |eu | style="text-align:left;" | go (some dialects{{efn|These 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 equivalent vowel.}}); Spanish Europa
{{IPA|ɛi }} | style="text-align:left;" | ai | style="text-align:left;" | RP, Aus, NZ may
{{IPA|iu}} | style="text-align:left;" | iu | style="text-align:left;" | few
{{IPA|oi}} | style="text-align:left;" | oi | style="text-align:left;" | coy
{{IPA|ou}} | style="text-align:left;" | ou | style="text-align:left;" | American goal
{{IPA|ɔu}} | style="text-align:left;" | au | style="text-align:left;" | RP, Aus, NZ goal

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