English Consonants Chart - Ipa Symbols Page 3
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3LING/AIS 210 American Indian Languages – Spring 2004, IPA Cheat Sheet
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Transcribing Diphthongs - Diphthongs are vowel-vowel or vowel-glide combinations that are
pronounced like a single (vowel) sound:
English Word - sound is
IPA Symbol
Word (IPA)
underlined
aj
rise
rajz
ɔj
noise
nɔjz
aw
rouse
rawz
Transcribing Vowels - some vowels not used in English, but found in some American Indian
languages
IPA Symbol
Comment
Language examples:
"barred-i" This is a sound sort of
like the one spelled by ə - but
ɨ
Tohono O'odham
pronounced with the tongue a
little higher in the mouth.
"Long vowel" - these have the
same quality as the IPA value
Tohono O'odham, Navajo, Hopi,
a:, i:, o: etc. or aa, ii, oo etc.
from the table above, but they
other
are pronounced with long
duration
"Voiceless vowel" - sounds like
å, etc.
Tohono O'odham
a whispered vowel
"Nasal vowel" - pronounced
ã, , e , etc. or ą, į, ę etc.
with air flow through the nasal
Navajo, Western Apache, others
cavity as well as the oral cavity
Much of this page was borrowed from the resources made available by :
Maintained by
J.C.
Wells. Created 1995 09 19. Unicode/IPA version 1999 04 29.
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