Help:IPA/Haitian Creole
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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Haitian Creole 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}}.
There are no silent letters in Haitian Creole unless a word is written with the traditional orthography.
See Haitian Creole phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Haitian Creole.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" | {| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em; text-align: center;" ! colspan="3" | Consonants | ||
| IPA | Examples | English approximation |
|---|---|---|
| {{IPAlink|b}}
| style="text-align:left;" | bagay | style="text-align:left;" | bow | ||
| {{IPAlink|ʃ}}
| style="text-align:left;" | cho | style="text-align:left;" | shoe | ||
| {{IPAlink|d}}
| style="text-align:left;" | dous | style="text-align:left;" | do | ||
| {{IPAlink|f}}
| style="text-align:left;" | fig | style="text-align:left;" | festival | ||
| {{IPAlink|ɡ}}
| style="text-align:left;" | gòch | style="text-align:left;" | gain | ||
| {{IPAlink|ɣ}}
| style="text-align:left;" | rezon The contrast between {{IPA|[ɣ]}} and {{IPA|[w]}} is lost before rounded vowels, and the two phonemes merge then as {{IPA|[w]}}. Some orthographies of Haitian Creole follow the etymology of the word by using {{angbr|r}} for {{IPA|[w]}} before a rounded vowel if it comes from an original {{IPA|[ɣ]}}: gro {{IPA|[ɡwo]}} ('big' cf. French gros {{IPA|[ɡʁo]}}). The official orthography follows the modern pronunciation of the word and uses {{angbr|w}} for {{IPA|[w]}} in all cases and so {{IPA|[ɡwo]}} is spelled {{angbr|gwo}}. | style="text-align:left;" | between go and loch | ||
| {{IPA link|h}}
| style="text-align:left;"| hèn | style="text-align:left;"| hotel | ||
| {{IPAlink|j}}
| style="text-align:left;" | pye | style="text-align:left;" | yes | ||
| {{IPAlink|k}}
| style="text-align:left;" | kle | style="text-align:left;" | sky | ||
| {{IPAlink|l}}
| style="text-align:left;" | liv | style="text-align:left;" | lean | ||
| {{IPAlink|m}}
| style="text-align:left;" | machin | style="text-align:left;" | mother | ||
| {{IPAlink|n}}
| style="text-align:left;" | nòt | style="text-align:left;" | note | ||
| {{IPAlink|ŋ}}
| style="text-align:left;" | bilding | style="text-align:left;" | feeling | ||
| {{IPAlink|p}}
| style="text-align:left;" | pase | style="text-align:left;" | spy | ||
| {{IPAlink|s}}
| style="text-align:left;" | sis | style="text-align:left;" | six | ||
| {{IPAlink|t}}
| style="text-align:left;" | tout | style="text-align:left;" | still | ||
| {{IPAlink|v}}
| style="text-align:left;" | vyann | style="text-align:left;" | vent | ||
| {{IPAlink|w}}
| style="text-align:left;" | wi | style="text-align:left;" | we | ||
| {{IPAlink|ɥ}}
| style="text-align:left;" | uit{{IPA|[ɥ]}} is always followed by {{IPA|[i]}}. This phoneme is extremely rare and maybe only exists in this word. | style="text-align:left;" | roughly like sweet | ||
| {{IPAlink|z}}
| style="text-align:left;" | zero | style="text-align:left;" | zero | ||
| {{IPAlink|ʒ}}
| style="text-align:left;" | jedi | style="text-align:left;" | measure | ||
| colspan="3"| Non-native consonants | ||
| {{IPAlink|dʒ}}
| style="text-align:left;" | djaz | style="text-align:left;" | jazz |
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! colspan="3"| Vowels | ||
| IPA | Examples | English approximation |
|---|---|---|
| {{IPAlink|a}}
| style="text-align:left;" | abako; pàn | style="text-align:left;" | bra | ||
| {{IPAlink|e}}
| style="text-align:left;" | ale | style="text-align:left;" | hey | ||
| {{IPAlink|ɛ}}
| style="text-align:left;" | fèt | style="text-align:left;" | bed | ||
| {{IPAlink|i}}
| style="text-align:left;" | lide | style="text-align:left;" | see | ||
| {{IPAlink|o}}
| style="text-align:left;" | zwazo | style="text-align:left;" | story | ||
| {{IPAlink|ɔ}}
| style="text-align:left;" | deyò | style="text-align:left;" | off | ||
| {{IPAlink|u}}
| style="text-align:left;" | nou | style="text-align:left;" | cool | ||
| colspan="3"| Nasal vowelsWhen {{IPA|[n]}} follows an oral vowel, a grave accent {{angbr|`}} is written on the vowel before {{angbr|n}}: {{angbr|èn}} represents {{IPA|[ɛn]}}, {{angbr|òn}} represents {{IPA|[ɔn]}}, and {{angbr|àn}} represents {{IPA|[an]}}. The oral pronunciation occurs also when {{angbr|n}} is followed by another vowel. | ||
| {{IPAlink|ã}}
| style="text-align:left;" | anpil | style="text-align:left;" | No English equivalent; nasalized {{IPA|[ɒ]}} | ||
| {{IPAlink|ɛ̃}}
| style="text-align:left;" | mwen | style="text-align:left;" | No English equivalent; nasalized {{IPA|[ɛ]}} | ||
| {{IPAlink|ɔ̃}}
| style="text-align:left;" | tonton | style="text-align:left;" | No English equivalent; nasalized {{IPA|[o]}} | ||
| {{IPAlink|ũ}}
| style="text-align:left;" | houngan | style="text-align:left;" | No English equivalent; nasalized {{IPA|[u]}} |
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Notes
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See also
- {{clc|Pages with Haitian Creole IPA|pages}}
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