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Monophthongs of Afrikaans on a vowel chart, from Wissing (2012:711) Afrikaans has an extensive vowel inventory consisting of 17 vowel phonemes, including 10 monophthongs and 7 diphthongs. There are also 7 marginal monophthongs.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Afrikaans on Wikipedia. ... Vowels; IPA Examples ... (short) ɔː: môre [8] story ...
The phonemic mid vowels are a mess, e.g. what is transcribed /ɛː eː/ in usual phonemic transcription is [eː iə] in actual pronunciation (though unstressed /eː/ is closer to a short [ɪ], AFAICS (see Lass (1987)) - another complication).
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 ...
At the end of words, Dutch g is sometimes omitted in Afrikaans, which opens up the preceding vowel (usually a short e ) now written with a circumflex. For example, the Dutch verb form zeg ("say", pronounced [zɛx]) became sê ([sɛː]) in Afrikaans, as did the infinitive zeggen, pronounced [ˈzɛɣə(n)].
The 'close-mid monophthongs' /eː, øː, oː/ (included in the original vowel chart) were ignored, because the most common realization of those are centering diphthongs, which has been the case for decades already (see e.g. Lass, Roger (1987) "Intradiphthongal Dependencies" in Explorations in Dependency Phonology, Dordrecht: Foris Publications ...
Afrikaans; Alemannisch ... In languages with phonemically short and long vowels, diphthongs typically behave like long vowels, and are pronounced with a similar ...
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.