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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Māori 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 Māori phonology for detailed discussion of the phonology of Māori.

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! colspan="3"| Consonants

IPAExamplesNZ English approximation
{{IPAlink|f}}The voiceless bilabial fricative {{IPAblink|ɸ}} (similar to English wh as pronounced by those without the wine-whine merger) historically was the dominant realization of this sound. However, in contemporary Māori, the most common pronunciation is {{IPAblink|f}}.

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

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

{{IPAlink|h}}

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

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

{{IPAlink|k}}

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

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

{{IPAlink|m}}

| style="text-align:left;" | Māori

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

{{IPAlink|n}}

| style="text-align:left;" | tēnā

| style="text-align:left;" | not

{{IPAlink|ŋ}}

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

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

{{IPAlink|p}}

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

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

{{IPAlink|ɾ}}

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

| style="text-align:left;" | atom (with flapping)

{{IPAlink|t}}

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

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

{{IPAlink|w}}

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

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

colspan=3 | Stress
IPAExampleNote
style="text-align:center;" |{{IPA|ˈ}}

| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"| Mount Ruapehu {{IPA|[ˈɾʉaˌpɛhʉ]}}

| rowspan="2" | Placed before the stressed syllable.Stress falls on the first long vowel or on the first diphthong. Otherwise, it is on the first syllable but never earlier than the fourth-last vowel in a word, with both long vowels and diphthongs counting twice.

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! colspan="3"| Vowels

IPAExamplesNZ English approximation
{{IPAlink|ä|aː}}

| style="text-align:left;" | Māori

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

{{IPAlink|ä|a}}

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

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

{{IPAlink|ɛː}}

| style="text-align:left;" | tēnā koe

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

{{IPAlink|ɛ}}

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

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

{{IPAlink|iː}}

| style="text-align:left;" | kīanga

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

{{IPAlink|i}}

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

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

{{IPAlink|ɔː}}

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

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

{{IPAlink|ɔ}}

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

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

{{IPAlink|ʉː}}

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

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

{{IPAlink|ʉ}}

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

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

colspan="3"| Diphthongs
{{IPA|ae}}

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

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | lie

{{IPA|ai}}

| style="text-align:left;" | Kaikōura

{{IPA|ao}}

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

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | house

{{IPA|au}}

| style="text-align:left;" | Taupō

{{IPA|oi}}

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

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

{{IPA|oe}}

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

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

{{IPA|ou}}

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

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

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Notes

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See also

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

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