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IPA transcriptions of Walloon on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Walloon in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing
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Wikipedia key to pronunciation of Walloon
The chart below shows how the
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents
Walloon language pronunciation in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see
Template:IPA and
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Consonants
[1]
IPA
Examples
English approximation
b
b arb ôjhe
b in
ç
sch åyî
[2]
h ue
χ
Scottish loch ,
German Bach
d
d eût
d o
dʒ
dj anvî
j eep
f
f oû
f estival
ɡ
g ayole, gu euye
g ain
h
[2]
h agnon
h atch
k
stoumak , c wand
sk y
l
l ére
l oo
m
m onde
m oo
n
n awe
n o
ɲ
dign ité
roughly like cany on
p
ap rinde
sp y
ʀ
ar ester
French fr èr e
s
[3]
s ûner, c énk, ç oula, diss u
s ing
ʃ
ch al, sh ijhinme,
[3] xh axh ler
[2]
sh elf
t
t ins
st op
tʃ
tch estea
ch ip
v
v int
lov e
z
z ûner
z oo
ʒ
måjh on
[2]
leis ure
Semivowels
j
y ebe, be acôp
y es
w
w alon, mo es
w ind
Vowels
[4]
IPA
Examples
English approximation
Short vowels
a
ga de
RP pa t
e
é vôs
he y
ɛ
e fant, dalae dje
be t
ɪ
pi ti t
ki t
ɔ
so ris
o ff
ø
djeu
bi rd
ʊ
atou wer
boo k
y
pu s
Scottish cu te, French rue
Long vowels
ɑː
[5]
djå zer, diâ le
la rge or boa rd
ɛː
[6]
gai yté, fê ye
be d or Scottish bai t
iː
pî
see
oː
rô ze
boa rd
uː
[7]
noû
coo l
yː
û t
Scottish cu te, French rue , but longer
Nasal vowels
ɑ̃
[5]
blan c
croissan t
ẽ
bén
roughly like ring
ɛ̃
[6]
rin de
Chopin
ɔ̃
djon dou
roughly like
American bone
œ̃
djun
roughly like sung
^ Walloon consonants are
devoiced word-finally, i.e. /d/ changes to [t] , /dʒ/ to [tʃ] , /z/ to [s] , and so on. This is not shown in the spelling.
^
a
b
c
d The groups ⟨sch⟩ , ⟨jh⟩ and ⟨xh⟩ are all realized as simply [
h in certain dialects. ⟨sch⟩ may also surface as [
ʃ or [sk] .
^
a
b The digraph ⟨sh⟩ is pronounced [s] in some varieties, [ʃ] in others.
^ As in French, stress always falls on the last vowel in Walloon.
^
a
b /ɑː/ and /ɑ̃/ show variation with [
aː /[
ɔː /[
oː and [
ɔ̃ , respectively.
^
a
b Open-mid /ɛː/ and /ɛ̃/ may be close-mid [eː] and [ẽ] .
^ Merges with [
yː in some dialects.
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