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The charts below show how the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Romansh language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.
See Romansh phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Romansh.
Consonants
IPA
Examples
English approximation
b b un; b ler
b ike
d d ent; d ubel
d one
dʒ ag id; j et
j ab
f f itg; f lad; clav
f ast
ɡ g at; g alant
g as
k c arr; arch itec t; aug ; k iosc ; q uai
sc ar
l l avar; mill i; val
l ip
ʎ egl ; gl ieud; bigl iet
roughly like milli on
m m illi; um
m other
n n an in ; onn s
n est
ŋ lung ; lun ga
sing
ɲ bogn ; gn erv
roughly like cany on
p p alp iri; app artament; verb
sp in
r [ 1] r adical; carr ; meglr a
roughly like water (American English)
s voss a; nus
s orry
ʃ sch anza; glisch ; pus pè; s copo
sh ip
t t eat er; t i; agid
st ar
ts c ifra; bellezz a; z unt
cats
tʃ ch asa; tg e; Rumantsch
ch ip
v grav a; w att
v ent
z cas a; ros a
z ipper
ʒ s bagl; S vizra; bransch a; Grisch un
meas ure
Semivowels
j j uvel; Itali a; y aky ou
w qu el; u al; w alkman
w ine
Marginal consonant
h [ 2] h aluncs; h obi
h at
Dialectal consonant
ç [ 3] amih
h ue
Vowels
IPA
Examples
English approximation
a ba nc; cla v
roughly like fa ther
ə ɐ [ 4] casa ; melle n
comma or roughly like gu t
e ble r; pé r
roughly like pa y
ɛ è ; pè r
be d
i ti ; i stori c
see
o biro ; o vra
roughly like law (British English)
ɔ po m; to c
no t
u [ 5] bu n; u dir
too
Dialectal vowels[ 6]
ø chaschö l
roughly like hu rt
y tü
roughly like cu te (North American)
Suprasegmentals
IPA
Examples
English approximation
ˈ com ba [ˈkɔmbɐ]
bo ttle
ˌ li bramain [ˌlibrəˈmaːin]
in tona tion
. gïun [dʒi.ˈun]
moai
ː da r [daːr]
long vowel
^ Some speakers from some dialects pronounce [ʁ ] .
^ Only found in interjections and loanwards.
^ Only found in some dialects.
^ This pronunciation varies between these two realizations.
^ In some dialects in some cases it's pronounced [o ] or [ʊ ] .
^ These vowels are only found in Putèr and Vallader dialects and German words.
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