Help:IPA/Sardinian

The charts below show how the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Sardinian pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.

See Sardinian phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Sardinian.

Consonants IPA Examples English approximation b bàcca (initial); abaudìtu (between un-stressed vowels); bàbaru (between a stressed vowel and an un-stressed one) bike β bìa (initial); ebréu (between vowel and trill consonant); nebodàza (between vowels) between baby and bevy d dormi (initial); sardu (between trill consonant and vowel); doadùra (between vowels) done dz accasazàre (between vowels); prànzu (betweeb consonant and vowel) dads dʒ giòba (initial before back vowel, digraph ⟨gi⟩); bambàgia (between open, near-front vowels; digraph ⟨gi⟩); culingiòsso (between consonant and vowel, digraph ⟨gi⟩); panagélicu (between vowels, grapheme simple ⟨g⟩) jab ð abbaccàda; cantat [ˈkantaða]; a thèrga (syntactic phonetics: article+noun) this θ althrolìttu (between consonant and vowel); furrìthu (between close vowels); tharalàu (initial); atheddhìna (between near-front vowels); istàthu (between a near-front and a back vowel) this f fora (initial); ufànu (between vowels) fast ɡ gàbbia; ghèrra; ghìa; ringhièra; fógu gas ɣ buttèga; ringhera; focu; àrcu ’e chélu like go, but without completely blocking air flow on the g k corsìa (initial before close-mid, back vowel); àlpaca (between open vowels); chélu (digrap ⟨ch⟩, before mid, near-front vowel); quàdra (grapheme ⟨q⟩); brùke (grapheme ⟨k⟩); piachènte scar l levantìnu (initial); abbalauccàdu (between vowels) lip ʎ brigliàju; origlièttas; bragliósu; contissìgliu roughly like million ɖ cherveddu (between vowels, digraph ⟨dd⟩); abbaraddhàdu (between vowels, trigraph ⟨ddh⟩) dine ([ɖiŋ]) in Indian English dialects (corresponds to /d/ in other dialects) m meledàda; mamudìnu; accampàda mother n nebodàza; energìa nest ŋ abbengàre; abbiénghidu sing ɲ appizzigàgnulu; gnagnajólu roughly like canyon p pabasólu; pìsiri; splajàre; ’alvispàltu spin ɾ carògna; dijimìre batter (American English) r rasàda; ferrùzzos Trilled r, Spanish: perro s seccàda (initial before vowel); stàntes (initial before plosive consonant; final); dilmìssu (between vowels) sorry ʃ sceléstu (initial); lescénscia (between vowels & between consonant and vowel); balàscios (between vowels) ship t tanéddhu (initial); àteu (between vowels) star ts zaccàre (initial); aìzzu (between vowels); tzaccadu (initial, using the digraph ⟨tz⟩) cats tʃ ciabàtta (initial and represented by the digraph ⟨ci⟩, followed by a stressed, open, mid vowel); cèddha (initial followed by a stressed near-front vowel); cìbbu (initial followed by a stressed, front vowel); ciaccósu (initial followed by un-stressed, front vowel); celibbàdu (initial followed by an un-stressed, near-front vowel "e"); chip v vacàda (initial); sérvu (between consonant and vowel): jurafàlzu (as grapheme ⟨f⟩ between vowels, one un-stressed the second one stressed); sa faìna (between un-stressed vowels) vent z casàra (between vowels); ixèmplu (between vowels, grapheme ⟨x⟩); su sole (syntactic phonetics) zipper ʒ abbajoccàda (between unstressed vowels); ajózi! (between an un-stressed vowel and a stressed one); conjugàdu (after consonant); ’agiòne (digraph ⟨gi⟩); paxi (between vowels, grapheme ⟨x⟩) measure Semivowels j calzulaiéddhu (one of the really rare cases of a semivowel in Sardinian) you

Vowels IPA Examples English approximation a Arba; áteru; proiát roughly like father e ape; beni roughly like pay ɛ cena; meri bed i filu; síncheru see o ógru (initial, stressed); abbaósu (non-initial, stressed); càndho (ending position, un-stressed, without graphic accent) roughly like law (British English) ɔ domu; cózzula not u domu; úrtima too   Suprasegmentals IPA Examples English approximation ˈ cantat [ˈkantaða] bottle ˌ propiamènte [ˌpropiaˈmente] intonation . via [ˈvi.a] moai

Further reading

• Blasco Ferrer, Eduardo (1994). ELLO ELLUS, grammatica della lingua sarda (in Italian). Nuoro (Sardegna): Poliedro Edizioni.