Help:IPA for Ukrainian
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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet represents Ukrainian pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.
Ukrainian contrasts palatalized "soft" and unpalatalized "hard" consonants. Palatalized consonants, denoted by a superscript ⟨j⟩ / ʲ /, are pronounced with the body of the tongue raised toward the hard palate, like in the /j/ sound in yes. The "hard" vs. "soft" distinction is phonemic for only nine pairs and may otherwise be ignored.
See Ukrainian phonology for more details on Ukrainian sounds.
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Notes[edit]
- ^ The "soft" (palatalized) vowel letters ⟨є, ї, ю, я⟩ represent a /j/ and a vowel at the beginning of a word or after a vowel.
- ^ The /w/ phoneme has two allophones:
- Bilabial approximant [β̞] (transcribed here [β] for simplicity) before vowels;
- Labialized velar semivowel [u̯] before a consonant at the beginning of word, after a vowel before a consonant or after a vowel at the end of a word (Жовтобрюх & Кулик (1965:121–122)).
- ^ In Ukrainian, geminates are found between vowels: багаття /bɑˈɦɑtʲːɑ/ bonfire, подружжя /pɔˈdruʒːɑ/ married couple, обличчя face. Geminates also occur at the beginning of a few words: лляний /ˈlʲːɑnɪj/ flaxen, forms of the verb лити to pour (ллю /lʲːu/, ллєш /lʲːɛʃ/ etc.), ссати /ˈsːɑtɪ/ to suck and derivatives.[citation needed]
Bibliography[edit]
- Danyenko, Andrii; Vakulenko, Serhii (1995), Ukrainian, Lincom Europa, ISBN 978-3-929075-08-3
- Жовтобрюх, М.А.; Кулик, Б.М. (1965), Курс сучасної української літературної мови. Частина I., Kiev: Радянська школа
