It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Yiddish 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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This page describes how IPA is used to transcribe
Yiddish words at Wikipedia. It follows the pronunciation of "Standard Yiddish" (or "
YIVO Yiddish"), as described in such works as
Uriel Weinreich's College Yiddish and Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see
Template:IPA and
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
See
Yiddish phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Yiddish.
^Not a separate phoneme of Yiddish, but an allophone of /n/ before /ɡ,k/
^The
rhotic/r/ is a phonetically variable consonant. It may be either alveolar or uvular, but it is more commonly a flap/tap ɾ~ʀ̆ than a trill r~ʀ (
Kleine (2003:263)).
Bibliography
Kleine, Ane (2003), "Standard Yiddish", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 33 (2): 261–265,
doi:
10.1017/S0025100303001385
