Help:IPA/Mauritian Creole

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! colspan="3" | Consonants

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

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

| style="text-align:left;" | dodo, dim

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

| style="text-align:left;"| dimal, diab

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

| style="text-align:left;" | no

| style="text-align:left;" | laŋ

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

| style="text-align:left;" | ganyThere are alternations between {{IPA|/ɲ/}}, {{IPA|/nj/}}, and {{IPA|/j̃, j/}} in many words.

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

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

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

| style="text-align:left;" | frer At the end of a word or before a consonant, the sequence of a vowel followed by {{angle bracket|r}} is realized as a long vowel or diphthong.

| style="text-align:left;" | between go and loch

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

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

| style="text-align:left;" | tïm

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

| style="text-align:left;"| timid{{IPA|/t, d/}} are palatalized or affricated to {{IPA|[tʲ, dʲ]}} or {{IPA|[tˢ, dᶻ]}} before {{IPA|/i, j/}} in words of French origin, but in words of English origin they remain alveolar stops.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

| style="text-align:left;"| maharaja{{IPA|/h/}} appears only in words of English or Indic origin, but in all cases it may be optionally omitted.

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

! colspan="3"| Vowels

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

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

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

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

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

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

| style="text-align:left;" | so, dodo

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

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

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

| style="text-align:left;" | rugbi{{IPAblink|ə}} occurs in words which traditionally had {{IPA|/i/}} deriving from standard French {{IPA|[ə, œ]}} in their initial syllable (e.g. dëló "water" from de l'eau). In such words, {{IPA|[ə]}} is unstressed, but a stressed {{IPA|[ə]}} is also heard as the reflex of English {{IPAc-en|ʌ}} in a few words such as rugbi "rugby". All words in which {{IPA|[ə]}} occurs also have alternative pronunciations with another vowel so {{IPA|[ə]}} is not yet phonemic.

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

| style="text-align:left;" | ansam, langaz

| style="text-align:left;" | No English equivalent; nasalized {{IPA|[a]}}

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

| style="text-align:left;" | No English equivalent; nasalized {{IPA|[e]}}

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

| style="text-align:left;" | No English equivalent; nasalized {{IPA|[o]}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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