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Collins & Mees (2003) analyze the pre-/s/ sequences /an, ɛn, ɔn/ as phonemic short vowels /ɑ̃, ɛ̃, ɔ̃/ and note that this process of nasalising the vowel and deleting the nasal occurs in many dialects of Dutch as well, such as The Hague dialect.
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.
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).
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.
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 ...
/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 ...
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 Africa Alphabet (also International African Alphabet or IAI alphabet) is a set of letters designed as the basis for Latin alphabets for the languages of Africa.It was initially developed in 1928 by the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures from a combination of the English alphabet and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).