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{{Stub}}The chart below shows how the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Kurdish pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. This page includes the three main Kurdish dialects; Northern Kurdish, Central Kurdish, and Southern Kurdish. 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 Kurdish phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Kurdish.

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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"

|+ Consonants

rowspan="2" | IPA

! colspan="3" |Orthography

! rowspan="2"| English approximation

Northern Kurdish{{cite book|author1=Celadet Bedir Khan & Roger Lescot|title=Grammaire Kurde (Dialecte kurmandji)|date=1970|publisher=La librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient Adrien Maisonneuve|location=Paris|page=3–7}}

! Central Kurdish{{cite web|author1=W. M. Thackston|title=—Sorani Kurdish— A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings|url=https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/Sorani/sorani_1_grammar.pdf|accessdate=29 October 2017}}

! Southern Kurdish{{cite web|author1=Hussein Ali Fattah|title=Ordlista på sydkurdiska Wişename we Kurdî xwarîn|url=http://www.kurdipedia.org/files/books/2016/93591.PDF?ver=130971445307410354|accessdate=29 October 2017|page=V}}

{{IPAlink|b}}

| b

| ب

| ب

| boy

{{IPAlink|dʒ}}

| c

| ج

| ج

| juice

{{IPAlink|tʃ}}

| ç

| چ

| چ

| chest

{{IPAlink|d}}

| d

| د

| د

| dog

{{IPAlink|f}}

| f

| ف

| ف

| foot

{{IPAlink|ɡ}}

| g

| گ

| گ

|good

{{IPAlink|ɣ}}

| {{tooltip|1=ẍ|2=Not a part of the alphabet}} / x

| غ

| style="background-color: darkgray" |

|go, but without completely blocking airflow on the g

{{IPAlink|h}}

| h

| ھ

| ھ

|hope

{{IPAlink|ħ}}

| {{tooltip|1=ḧ|2=Not a part of the alphabet}} / h

| ح

| style="background-color: darkgray" |

| Semitic Heth

{{IPAlink|ʒ}}

| j

| ژ

| ژ

|treasure

{{IPAlink|k}}

| k

| ک

| ک

|skin

{{IPAlink|l}}

| l

| ل

| ل

|lip

{{IPAlink|ɫ}}

| {{tooltip|1=ł|2=Not a part of the alphabet}} / l / ll

| ڵ‎

| ڵ‎

|pill

{{IPAlink|m}}

| m

| م

| م

|moon

{{IPAlink|n}}

| n

| ن

| ن

|nap

{{IPAlink|ŋ}}{{cite journal|author1=Hiwa Asadpour & Maryam Mohammadi|title=A Comparative Study of Phonological System of Kurdish Varieties|journal=Journal of Language and Cultural Education|issn=1339-4584|page=109}}

| {{tooltip|1=ň|2=Not a part of the alphabet}} / ng

| نٚ

| نٚ

| sing

{{IPAlink|p}}

| p

| پ

| پ

|spin

{{IPAlink|q}}

| q

| ق

| ق

|Semitic Qoph

{{IPAlink|ɾ}}

| r

| ر

| ر

|(American English) atom

{{IPAlink|r}}

| {{tooltip|1=ř|2=Not a part of the alphabet}} / r / rr

| ڕ

| ڕ

|(Scottish English) run

{{IPAlink|s}}

| s

| س

| س

|sip

{{IPAlink|ʃ}}

| ş

| ش

| ش

|ship

{{IPAlink|t}}

| t

| ت

| ت

|stop

{{IPAlink|v}}

| v

| ڤ

| ڤ

|vase

{{IPAlink|w}}

| w

| و

| و

|west

{{IPAlink|x}}

| x

| خ

| خ

| Scottish loch

{{IPAlink|j}}

| y

| ی

| ی

|yolk

{{IPAlink|z}}

| z

| ز

| ز

|zap

| style="padding-left: 1em; vertical-align:top;" |

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|+ Vowels

rowspan="2" | IPA

! colspan="3" |Orthography

! rowspan="2" |English approximation

Northern Kurdish

! Central Kurdish

! Southern Kurdish

{{IPAlink|ɑː}}

| a

| ا

| ا

| father

{{IPAlink|eː}}

| ê

| ێ

| ێ

| air

{{IPAlink|ɛ}}

| e

| style="background-color: |ە

| ه

| bay

{{IPAlink|iː}}

| î

| ى

| ى

| see

{{IPAlink|ɪ}}

| i

| -

| -

| if

{{IPAlink|oː}}

| o

| ۆ

| ۆ

| shore

{{IPAlink|ʊ}}

| u

| و

| و

| foot

{{IPAlink|uː}}

| û

| وو

| وو

| cool

{{IPAlink|yː}}

| style="background-color: darkgray" |

| style="background-color: darkgray" |

| ۊ

| somewhat like cute

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References

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See also

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

External links

  • [http://www.kurdishacademy.org/?q=node/3 Kurdish Unified Alphabet]

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