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The charts below show how the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Venetian language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.
See Venetian phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Venetian.
IPA
Consonants
S&E C N Examples
English approximation
b b arb a; sb aro
b ike
d d ove; id ra
d one
dz ð z z aino; ż enòcio; franż a; fredh a; ordh o; đ anđ ivi; lapiđ ea
dads ; th isz ipper
dʒ g èmo; gi ara; ġ arón; ġ en
j ab
f f inco; f ìnf erli; ruf a
f ast
ɡ g ato; fig o; gh ìng ari; rugh e
g as
h ah ari; h émena
h at
k c oa; ch eca; tenc a; k arèga; q uacio
sc ar
l l àrese; mol ton; stèl a
l ip
ɰ [ 1] ł ate; goł a
roughly like toll
m m are; rem a
m other
n n asion; àn ara
n est
ŋ ladiṅ ; piroṅ ; ón gara; ven co; can po[ 2]
sing
ɲ cugn à; gn aro; ñ el; ñ añ a
roughly like cany on
p p op à; desp èrdere
sp in
ɾ [ 3] r osto; var a
roughly like wat er (American English )
s s oto; bas ton; s trass a
s orry
t t alpa; but iro; gat
st ar
ts θ s z ata; marz ; nòzz e; ç anpedon; petaç a; cazh òt; zh èrzh a
cats ; th ings orry
tʃ c èrega; ci aro; moc' ; ċ ave
ch ip
v v aca; av a
v ent
z às eno; s baro; ṡ io; onṡ o; x e; piax e
z ipper
Marginal consonants
ʎ artigli èr, batàgli a
roughly like milli on
ʃ š chena; meš edà
sh ip
ʒ ž al; ruž a
meas ure
Semivowels
j j èri; aj o; lezi èr; y achty ou
w su òr; aqu a; w eb
w ine
Vowels
IPA
Examples
English approximation
a a qua ; ma n
roughly like fa ther
e fe ta; paré
roughly like pa y
ɛ ghè nga; perè r
be d
i fi o; i ntrada
see
o bo te; bogó
roughly like law (British English )
ɔ fiò co; pò ro
no t
u du to; du dolèr
too l
Suprasegmentals
IPA
Examples
English approximation
ˈ ponà ro [poˈnaɾo]
bo ttle
ˌ li beramen te [ˌlibeɾaˈmente]
in tona tion
. fio [ˈfi.o]
moai
^ In some dialects it is pronounced [l
^ As in most Northern Italian languages, nasals do not assimilate their place of articulation to that of the following consonant, differently from what happens in standard Italian . In Venetian, [ŋ ] (in Italian only occurring in /nɡ/ , /nk/ ) is used in all nasal plus consonant clusters: e.g. can po [ˈkaŋpo] , can toṅ [kaŋˈtoŋ] .
^ The phoneme /r/ in Venetian is almost always an alveolar flap .
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