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Help:IPA/Tigrinya

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Tigrinya language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

The Tigrinya letters (ፊደላት) in the last charts have the consonants in rows and the vowels in columns. Each letter is represented by one consonant (or consonant cluster) and one vowel.

Vowels

Vowel Orders IPA Transliteration English Approximation
First Order ɐ ä better (sometimes a schwa)
Second Order u u cool
Third Order i i seat
Fourth Order ä a Between fat and father[1]
Fifth Order e e way
Sixth Order ɨ ə Roses
Seventh Order o o story
IPA ɐ u i ä e ɨ o English approximation Transliteration
b Bed b
d Dad d
d͡ʒ Judge ǧ, j
f Far f
ɡ Go g
h How h
h h,
ħ No English equivalent h,
j Yes y
k King k
Ski
Kite ḳh
l Let l
m Match m
n Now n
ɲ Onion ñ
p Pin p
Upper
ɾ ~ r Water SAE r
s Sight s
s ś
tsʼ Pizza
tsʼ ṣ́
ʃ Short š
t Talk t
t͡ʃ Church č
t͡ʃʼ Achoo č̣
Stick
v Vault v
x Scottish loch x, kh
w Walk w
z Zoo z
ʒ Pleasure ž
ʔ Uh-oh ʾ , -
ʕ No English equivalent ʿ, ʾ, -

Labiovelar Abugida

IPA ɐ i ä e ɨ
ɡʷ
kʼʷ
xʼʷ

Notes

  1. ^ Closer to fat in most British and Irish accents; closer to father in most North American, Australian and New Zealand accents.

See also