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ɵ English approximations are wrong

Neither of vowels "ɵ" (stressed/unstressed) do sound remotely similar to "foot" (which is purely "u"). 78.84.117.99 (talk) 20:51, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

See [1][2]. Nardog (talk) 04:38, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, maybe I didn't point out. My grievance is with sounds in words "ма́чо" and "сёрфинги́ст". The "foot" example should be swapped to something like "goat". See Close-mid central rounded vowel.

The "foot" example would only makes sense for IPA "ʊ". 78.84.117.99 (talk) 11:42, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I changed "foot" to "choice". "Foot" made absolutely no sense here. There may be some obscure dialect, where it pronounced as a close-mid central rounded vowel, but that is not helpful in this situation. IvanTheRussian (talk) 15:00, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There are so many mistakes here

No one says дж in Колледж like Ch in Chop It's more like J in Job

Don't mess up Г with Х, there are only few words where Г is pronounced as Х, such as Бог or Легко; in the most cases it's Г as is

And etc., that page looks wrong 94.241.236.162 (talk) 05:36, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

soft ɣ

the word currently listed with ɣʲ is actually pronounced with ɣ

https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B4%D0%B2%D1%83%D1%85%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9

needs to be replaced with something that has ɣʲ (but I don't think such words even exist?) LICA98 (talk) 14:44, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Only with Southern Russian dialects: «доро́ги» [dɔˈrɔɣʲi] 'roads' (or ɦʲ). Tacit Murky (talk) 23:05, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong English Approximation for [r]?

The English approximation used for [r] (a voiced alveolar trill) here, "American atom", is typically the example for [ɾ] (a voiced alveolar tap/flap) on other IPA pages as I've noticed, and is not the correct example for a trilled r. 71.50.52.242 (talk) 00:23, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You are free to provide a better approximation. Tacit Murky (talk) 04:27, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Russian phonology says /rʲ/ is "usually with only a single contact", so at least catty is appropriate (although single-contact trills and taps/flaps are not exactly the same articulatorily, they sound pretty much the same). I wouldn't be surprised if /r/ too was often realized with a single contact, as this is cross-linguistically common. Nardog (talk) 15:34, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gotcha! Makes sense to me :]. Thank you for the explanation! 71.50.52.242 (talk) 17:49, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]