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In Afrikaans, velar may be used in a few "hyper-posh" varieties [which?], and it may also, rarely, occur as an allophone before front vowels in speakers with otherwise uvular . /ɡ/ occurs mostly in loanwords, but also occurs as an allophone of /χ/ at the end of an inflected root where G is preceded by a short vowel and /r/ and succeeded by a ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Afrikaans on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Afrikaans in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Would someone please re-check the Afrikaans vowel pronunciation for "o", because it's in the table as [o], while it's [ɔ] in both of these articles, Afrikaans and Comparison of Afrikaans and Dutch. Thanks. --Mahmudmasri 12:21, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
Wolofal, like its parent system, the Arabic script, is an abjad.This means that only consonants are represented with letters. Vowels are shown with diacritics.As a matter of fact, writing of diacritics, including zero-vowel (sukun) diacritic as per the orthographic are mandatory.
The Afrikaans writing system is based on Dutch, using the 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet, plus 16 additional vowels with diacritics. The hyphen (e.g. in a compound like see-eend 'sea duck'), apostrophe (e.g. ma's 'mothers'), and a whitespace character (e.g. in multi-word units like Dooie See 'Dead Sea') is part of the orthography of ...
In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration.In some languages vowel length is an important phonemic factor, meaning vowel length can change the meaning of the word, for example in Arabic, Czech, Dravidian languages (such as Tamil), some Finno-Ugric languages (such as Finnish and Estonian), Japanese, Kyrgyz, Samoan ...
In Afrikaans, the trema (Afrikaans: deelteken, [ˈdiəl.tiəkən]) is used mostly to indicate that two vowels are pronounced separately. The deelteken does exactly what it means in Afrikaans ("separation mark") by marking the beginning of a new syllable and by separating it from the previous one.
/f/ f in "fir" has both an /a/ vowel and an /i/ vowel. The letter of prolongation in ī and ū has sukūn. The Afrikaans preposition by is written as part of the next word, likely by copying Arabic language usage with some prepositions. The Afrikaans word al = "all" is written as part of the next word, likely by copying Arabic language usage ...