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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Tatar 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.

IPA Cyrillic Latin English
approximation
Consonants
b б b bee
ɕ ч ç she
ɕː щ[1] şç she
d д d day
f ф f fat
ɡ г g go
h һ h hat
j й[2] y yes
k к k key
l л l leaf
m м m my
n н n no
ŋ ң ñ sing
p п p park
q к (къ)[3] q Arabic Miqaṣṣ

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ɾ р r Scottish girl
ʁ г (гъ)[3] ğ French rouge
s с s say
ʃ ш ş shy
t т t table
ts ц[1] ts bits
ч[1] ç cheese
v в[1] v van
w у, ү, в w well
χ х x Scottish loch
z з z zoo
ʑ җ c azure (UK)
ʐ ж j garage (US)
ʔ ь, э[4] ' glottal stop in oh-oh
IPA Cyrillic Latin English
approximation
Vowels
ɑ a[2][5] a father
æ ә[2][6] ə / ä[7] cat
е,[2] э e bit
ɤ̞ ы[2] ı Like story, but with the lips unrounded
ɯɪ ый ıy / i[8] Scottish price
i и i feed
ʊ о o full
ø̞ ө[6] ö bird
u у[2] u fool
ʉ ү[2] ü goose (RP, Scot, Aus, NZ)
Suprasegmental
IPA Explanation
ˈ Stress mark, placed before the stressed syllable

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Only in Russian loanwords
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Combinations [jɑ, jæ], [jɤ̞, je], [ju, jʉ] are spelled in Cyrillic as Я я, Е е, Ю ю, respectively, and in Latin as ya/, /ye, yu/.
  3. ^ a b [q] and [ʁ] are spelled in Cyrillic as К к and Г г, and only in a few words as къ and гъ, whereas in Latin, they're spelled as q and ğ respectively.
  4. ^ Only in Arabic loanwords, ь and э are used to indicate the glottal stop: e.g. мәсьәлә and маэмай.
  5. ^ The low back vowel /ɑ/ is realised as [ɒ] when it occurs at the beginning of words, e.g. bara [bɒrɑ] 'he goes', baralar [bɒrɑlɑr] 'they go'.
  6. ^ a b Combinations [qæ, ʁæ] and [qø‌, ʁø‌] are spelled in Cyrillic as ка/га and ко/го respectively and in Latin as qä/ğä and qö/ğö.
  7. ^ While letter ä is often used in transliterating Tatar Cyrillic, in 2024, the Common Turkic Alphabet replaced it with ə. This letter has already been in use in Azeri, as well as among Tatar content creators writing in Latin.
  8. ^ Tatar uses a combination of г / к + ый to indicate [ʁ] and [q], respectively. Because unlike in Bashkurt, Tatar lacks the Cyrillic letters ғ and ҡ (ğ and q in the Latin script). The Cyrillic letters г and к are used to indicate both k/g and q/ğ in Tatar. Therefore, the spelling of гый/кый in the Tatar Latin script is ği/qi.

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