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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Gujarati on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Gujarati in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
In the vowels chart, a separate phonetic value is given for each major dialect, alongside the words used to name their corresponding lexical sets. The diaphonemes for the lexical sets given here are based on RP and General American; they are not sufficient to express all of the distinctions found in other dialects, such as Australian English.
Gujarati contrasts oral and nasal, and murmured and non-murmured vowels, [2] except for /e/ and /o/. [3] In absolute word-final position, the higher and lower vowels of the /e ɛ/ and /o ɔ/ sets vary. [3] /ɛ/ and /ɔ/ developed in the 15th century. Old Western Rājasthāni split into the Rajasthani languages and Middle Gujarati. [4]
If a common English rendering of the non-English name exists (Venice, Nikita Khrushchev), its pronunciation, if necessary, should be indicated before the non-English one. For English words and names, pronunciation should normally be omitted for common words or when obvious from the spelling; use it only for loanwords from other languages (coup ...
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 ...
In accordance with all the other Indic scripts, Gujarati is written from left to right, and is not case-sensitive. The Gujarati script is basically phonemic, with a few exceptions. [6] First out of these is the written representation of non-pronounced a's, which are of three types. Word-final a's. Thus ઘર "house" is pronounced ghar and not ...
Throughout Wikipedia, the pronunciation of words is indicated using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The following tables list the IPA symbols used for English words and pronunciations. Please note that several of these symbols are used in ways that are specific to Wikipedia, and differ from those used by dictionaries.
The Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet for Disordered Speech, commonly abbreviated extIPA / ɛ k ˈ s t aɪ p ə /, [1] are a set of letters and diacritics devised by the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association to augment the International Phonetic Alphabet for the phonetic transcription of disordered speech.