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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Arabic on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Arabic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The standard pronunciation of ج in MSA varies regionally, most prominently in the Arabian Peninsula, parts of the Levant, Iraq, north-central Algeria, and parts of Egypt, it is also considered as the predominant pronunciation of Literary Arabic outside the Arab world and the pronunciation mostly used in Arabic loanwords across other languages ...
The Arabic alphabet, [a] or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is a unicameral script written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, [ b ] of which most have contextual letterforms.
Square brackets are used with phonetic notation, whether broad or narrow [17] – that is, for actual pronunciation, possibly including details of the pronunciation that may not be used for distinguishing words in the language being transcribed, but which the author nonetheless wishes to document. Such phonetic notation is the primary function ...
Arabic qof, Somali qaab: p\ ɸ: voiceless bilabial fricative: Japanese fu, Ainu fuchi: B: β: voiced bilabial fricative: Catalan roba 'clothes', Spanish huevo 'egg' f: f: voiceless labiodental fricative: English fool, Spanish fama ('fame') v: v: voiced labiodental fricative: English voice, German Welt 'world' T: θ: voiceless dental fricative
For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters. See Egyptian Arabic phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Egyptian Arabic. The romanization of the examples is the commonly used form in Egypt.
a widespread pronunciation of /q/ as (the Druze, however, retain the uvular ). A strong tendency to pronounce long /aː/ as (imala) in a front phonemic context or (tafkhim) in a back phonemic context. This tendency is stronger as one goes northward.
The i'jam diacritic characters are illustrative only, in most typesetting the combined characters in the middle of the table are used. The characters used to illustrate the consonant diacritics are from Unicode set "Arabic pedagogical symbols". [2]