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The charts below show how the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Corsican language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.
See Corsican phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Corsican.
Consonants
IPA
Examples
English approximation
b b abb u; p orta; v ai
b ike
c chj osu; machj a
RP T uesday
d d ormi; t ettu
d one
dz z itellu; pranz u
dads
dʒ gi oia; piac e
j ab
ð [ 1] d onna; strad a
th is
f f ora; goff u
f ast
ɡ [ 2] g attu; butteg a; ringh era; foc u
g as
ɟ [ 3] ghj ornu; oghj e
RP d ue
k c orsu; bocc a; ch i; q uale; k iwi
sc ar
l [ 4] l atru; ell u
l ip
ʎ famigli a; agli u[ 5]
roughly like milli on
m m ele; m ama a; cam pu [ 6] m other
n n eve; cenn u
n est
ŋ cin que; rin ghera[ 6]
sing
ɲ bisogn u; castagn u[ 5]
roughly like cany on
p p esciu; p orgu; casp a
sp in
r r asoghju; ferr u; per si
Trilled r , Spanish: perr o
s [ 7] s eccu; s trada; quess u
s orry
ʃ sc effu; pesci u
sh ip
t t utt u; att ent u
st ar
ts z appatu; lazz a
cats
tʃ c ecu; c i
ch ip
v serv ici; av iò: f rittu; w att
v ent
z cas a
z ipper
ʒ sgi ò; brusg era
meas ure
Semivowels
j pi ù; mei u, gabbi a; Ai acciu; y acht
y ou
w qu ale; gu erra; nev e; b asta; w eek-end
w ine
Vowels
IPA
Examples
English approximation
a [ 8] a rma ; serà
roughly like fa ther
e [ 9] e le ttu; me iu
roughly like pa y
ɛ [ 9] è pica; te rra
be d
i i ; mì
see
o o ra; giò vani
roughly like law (British English)
ɔ aviò
no t
u u ; più
too
Suprasegmentals
IPA
Examples
English approximation
ˈ làm pana [ˈlampana]
bo ttle
ˌ pru piamen te [ˌprupjaˈmente]
in tona tion
. via [ˈwi.a]
moai
^ Some speakers omit it or in some dialects it's pronounced [r ] .
^ Some speakers omit it when it's between vowels.
^ Some speakers pronounce it as [j ] .
^ In some dialects it's pronounced [r ] .
^ a b As in the other Romance languages, [ɲ ] and [ʎ ] occur only in the consonant clusters /ɲj/ (spelled ⟨gn⟩ , as in Italian and French) and /ʎj/ (spelled ⟨gli⟩ , as in Italian).
^ a b Like Italian, the nasals always assimilate their place of articulation to that of the following consonant. Thus, the n in /nɡ/, /nk/ is a velar [ŋ ] , the realization before /v/ or /f/ is a labiodental [ɱ ] (though this is transcribed here as [m ] ), and only [m ] is ever found before /p/ or /b/ .
^ In some dialects it's pronounced [ʃ ] when it's followed by t.
^ In some dialects it's pronounced [æ ] .
^ a b In some dialects it's pronounced [æ ] or [a ] .
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