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Romanian is one of the syllable-timed languages, along with most Romance languages (French, Spanish, etc., but not Portuguese), Telugu, Yoruba, Chinese, Indonesian/Malay and many others. (A third timing system is mora timing , exemplified by Classical Latin , Fijian , Finnish , Hawaiian , Japanese , and Old English .)
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Romanian language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
The Romanian alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet used for writing the Romanian language.It is a modification of the classical Latin alphabet and consists of 31 letters, [1] [2] five of which (Ă, Â, Î, Ș, and Ț) have been modified from their Latin originals for the phonetic requirements of the language.
However, its most distinctive feature is the use of "meta-notations", which are intended to cover cross-dialectal phonological variation, particularly in degrees of palatalisation; "morpho-graphs", which are used to represent the morphophonological alternation of case suffixes [6] in different phonological environments; [7] and a double dot ...
The Romanian alphabet is based on the Latin script with five additional letters Ă, Â, Î, Ș, Ț. Formerly, there were as many as 12 additional letters, but some of them were abolished in subsequent reforms. Also, until the early 20th century, a breve marker was used, which survives only in ă. Today the Romanian alphabet is largely phonemic.
Ana este o fată 1 / și Ion este un băiat. 2 / Ana is a girl, 1 / and Ion is a boy. 2 / Two subordinate clauses (2, 3) can also be joined to the same end: V-am spus despre băiatul 1 / care este la mine în clasă, 2 / și care este foarte bun la matematică. 3 / I have told you about the boy 1 / who is in my class, 2 / and who is very good ...
The following is the chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of phonetic symbols devised and maintained by the International Phonetic Association. It is not a complete list of all possible speech sounds in the world's languages, only those about which stand-alone articles exist in this encyclopedia.
The voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant affricate or voiceless domed postalveolar sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with t͡ʃ , t͜ʃ tʃ (formerly the ligature ʧ ), or, in broad transcription, c .