Help:IPA/Mayan

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents pronunciations of the various Mayan languages 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}}.

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!IPA !! Examples !! English approximation

colspan=3| Consonants{{cite web|url=http://www.mesoweb.com/resources/vocabulary/vocabulary.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712213559/www.mesoweb.com/resources/vocabulary/vocabulary.pdf|archive-date=July 12, 2015 |date=January 2002 |last=Boot |first=Erik |title=A Preliminary Classic Maya-English / English-Classic Maya Vocabulary of Hieroglyphic Readings| publisher=Leiden University, the Netherlands| access-date=September 13, 2012}}

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|ʔ}}

|k'in, Ch'ol

|the catch in uh-oh; a glottal stop

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|ɓ}}

|K'axob, Xibalba

|like boy but sucking air

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|tʃ}}

|ch

|child

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|tʃʼ}}

|ch'

|popped ch

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|h}}

| jelik, Q'umarkaj

| he

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|x}}

|loch

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|k}}

|skin

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|kʼ}}

|k'

|popped kin

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|l}}

| l

| leave

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|m}}

|man

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|n}}

|noodle

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|ŋ}}

|nh

|sing

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|p}}

| p

|span

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|pʼ}}

| p'

|popped pan

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|q}}

| q

| cut but further back from throat

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|qʼ}}

| q'

|as above, but ejective

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|ɾ}}

| Xcaret

|atom [American English]

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|s}}

| s

|sack

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|t}}

| t

|stand

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|tʼ}}

| t'

|popped tan

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

| ty

|tee

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| ty'

|as above, but ejective

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|ts}}

|tz

|cats

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|tsʼ}}

|tz'

|popped cats

| style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|w}}

|wand

| style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|ʃ}}

|Xunantunich, yaax

|shoe

| style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|j}}

|yes

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! IPA

! Examples !! English approximation

colspan=3| Vowels{{cite book|last=Dienhart|first=John M.|title=The Mayan Languages: A Comparative Vocabulary|year=1989|publisher=Odense University Press|location=Odense, Denmark|isbn=8774927221|ref=Dienhart}}{{cite book|last=Hofling|first=Charles Andrew|title=Mopan Maya–Spanish–English Dictionary|year=2011|publisher=University of Utah Press|location=Salt Lake City, Utah|isbn=1607810298|ref=Hofling}}

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|kax, Tabscoob

|between fat and fatherCloser to fat in most British and Irish accents; closer to father in most North American, Australian and New Zealand accents.(short)

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|naach

|between fat and father (long)

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|met

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|ee

|pay

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|ə}}

|k'än

|sofa

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|əː}}

|määchäl

|RP herb

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| i

| city

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| ahiin

|see

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| pol

|story (short)

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|oː}}

|oo

|story (long)

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|u}}

| u

|full

style="text-align:center;" |{{IPAlink|uː}}

|uu

|fool

colspan=3| Stress

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|colspan=2| Oxk'utzkab [oʃkʼut͡sˈkab]

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