Help:IPA for Wandamen
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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Wandamen Language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. See Wandamen Language for a more thorough look at the phonology of Wandamen.
| Consonants | ||
|---|---|---|
| IPA | Examples in Wandamen | Examples in English |
| b | aibo | abate |
| β | kavi | between bat and vat |
| d[1] | madiawi | roughly like day |
| g[2] | maŋgar | garden |
| j[3] | yai | yearn |
| k | kambu | kitten |
| m | romi | men |
| n | niau | name |
| ŋ | waŋgar | hang |
| p | pibata | peas |
| r[4] | teri | far (Scottish English), trilled as in Spanish |
| ɾ[4] | teri | butter (some American English) |
| s | apose | erase |
| t[1] | tawa | roughly like tap |
| w[3] | wona | women |
| Non-Native Consonants | ||
| d͡ʒ | gaja | gem |
| l | apel | tell |
| Vowels | ||
|---|---|---|
| Monophthongs | ||
| IPA | Examples in Wandamen | English Approximation |
| a | pam | cot (General American English) |
| e | ret | play |
| i | musi | tea |
| o | mor | sold |
| u | kambu | boot |
| Diphthongs | ||
| au | rau | cow |
| ai | ai | tie |
| ei | memei | hay |
| oi | amoi | coy |
| ui | dui | chewy |
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b Coronals may be more dental than suggested by their current IPA transcriptions. Palatography research is necessary to corroborate this.
- ^ The velar plosive [g] is a marginal phoneme, it only appears following [ŋ].
- ^ a b Glides are not phonemic, they are allophones of high vowels.
- ^ a b The rhotic trill and tap are in free variation with each other.
Bibliography[edit]
- Gasser, Emily A., "Windesi Wamesa Morphophonology" (2014). Linguistics Graduate Dissertations. Paper 1. http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ling_graduate/1
- Gasser, Emily. 2015. Wamesa Talking Dictionary, pilot version. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://www.talkingdictionary.org/wamesa
