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Wikipedia key to pronunciation of Romansh
The charts below show how the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Romansh language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{ IPA-rm }} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters .
Consonants
IPA
Examples
English approximation
b b un; b ler
b ike
d d ent; d ubel
d one
dʑ [ 1] ag id; j et
similar to the /dʒ/ in 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 [ 2] r adical; carr ; meglr a
roughly like wat er (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
tɕ [ 3] ch asa; tg e
similar to the /k/ in k ey
tʃ 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 [ 4] h aluncs; h obi
h at
Dialectal consonant
ç [ 5] amih
h ue
Vowels
IPA
Examples
English approximation
a ba nc; cla v
roughly like fa ther
ə ɐ [ 6] 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
o ff
u [ 7] bu n; u dir
too
Dialectal vowels[ 8]
ø chaschö l
roughly like hu rt
y tü
roughly like cu te (American English )
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
^ Also transcribed as [ɟ] by some linguists.
^ Some dialects pronounce [ʁ ] .
^ Also transcribed as [c] by some linguists.
^ Only in interjections and loanwards.
^ Only in some dialects.
^ This pronunciation varies between the two realizations.
^ Some dialects pronounce it as [o ] or [ʊ ] .
^ Only in Putèr and Vallader dialects and German words.
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