Help:IPA/Catalan

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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Catalan 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.

Key for standard Catalan and Valencian

There are two major standards, one of

Western Catalan
features. Neither variant is preferred over the other in Wikipedia articles except in cases where a local pronunciation is clearly more relevant (such as a place in Catalonia or a Valencian artist).

See Catalan phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of standard Catalan and Valencian, and Catalan orthography for the main correspondences between spelling and pronunciation. (For an extensive list of spelling-to-sound correspondences, see this)

IPA Consonants
Catalonia
C		 Valencian Community
V		 Examples English approximation
b b bell, àmbit, capgròs[1][2] best
v vell, envit, watt [1][2] best (C) / vest (V)
β
 		avanç, selva[3][2] vest[3]
b abans, arbre[3][2] vest[3] (C) / best (V)
d
 		drac, indret, ritme[1] door
dz dz setze, tots alhora[4][1] adze[4]
z
 		utilitza[4] adze[4] (C) / zebra[4] (V)
dʒ viatja, fetge, migdia[4][1] jeep
ð
 		cada, lladre[3] other
f fort, bafs face
ɡ guant, angle, guiar, ècdisi[1] got
ɣ aigües, agrat, lloguer[3] between got and hot[3]
k cors, quan, qui, llarg, kiwi, Kuwait, viking, kelvin scan
l
 		laca, ceŀla,[5] val[6] pile
ʎ llac, cella,[5] Elx[6] billion
m meu, comte[6] mode
ɱ limfa, ínfim[6] lymph
n
 		neu, dansa[6] note
ŋ sang,[6] cigne ring
ɲ nyeu, penges[6] onion
p por, dubte span
r
 		ruc, mirra, honra[7] Scots rook
ɾ mira, truc, per[7] US atom
s
 		set, està, feliç[4] sick[4]
ʃ tʃ xec, Barx[4] ship (C) / cheap (V)
jʃ caixa[4] ship (C) / geisha (V)
ʃ Xàtiva, guix[4] ship
t
 		terra, fred stand
ts lletsó, tots[4] cats[4]
tʃ txec, veig, mig cheap
v hafni, bafs d'aigua[1] vest
z
 		zel, esma[4][1] zebra[4]
ʒ dʒ joc, gespa[4] genre (C) / jeep (V)
j jo[4] genre (C) / young (V)
jʒ caixmir[4][1] genre (C) / beige (V)
ʒ guix verd[4][1] genre
IPA Marginal consonants
h ehem[8], Sàhara hot
θ theta, López thing
x kharja, Bach Scots loch
 
IPA Semivowels[9]
Catalonia
C		 Valencian Community
V		 Examples English approximation
j iode, posa-hi, York young
w quart, Güell, posa-ho, web quick
IPA Vowels
Catalonia
C		 Valencian Community
V		 Examples English approximation
a sac, ànecs father
ɛ ɛ set, èxit pet
e sec, què[10] pet (C) / face (V)
e séc, anells, ídem[11] face
ə demà[11] alpha (C) / face (V)
a fadrí, entens[11] alpha (C) / father (V)
i naixement alpha (C) / meet (V)
i sic, ties, fillet[11] meet
ɔ soc, això off
o o sóc, molt, ego, mouré[11] story
u oratge[11] rule (C) / story (V)
u suc, dues, fullet, cobert[11] rule
IPA Marginal vowels
y déjà vu[12] cute[12]
 
IPA Suprasegmentals
Catalonia
C		 Valencian Community
V		 Examples Explanation
ˈ Dídac
[ˈdiðək] (C) / [ˈdiðak] (V) 		primary stress
ˌ Bellpuig
[ˌbeʎˈputʃ] (C / V) 		secondary stress
. Maria
[məˈɾi.ə] (C) / [maˈɾi.a] (V) 		syllable break
ː Imma
[ˈimːə] (C) / [ˈimːa] (V) 		long consonant/vowel
IPA Other representations
( ) Corts
[ˈkoɾ(t)s] (C / V) 		optional sound

Other transcriptions

Catalan in Andorra, Western Catalonia and La Franja (NW)
Standard Valencian (see V above
). However, there are some differences that should be used in the transcription of local names in Andorra, Western Catalonia (Lleida and part of Tarragona) and the Aragonese border (La Franja). Those differences are:
Standard Catalan
)		 Examples English approximation
Betacism[2][3] /b/, /v/ → /b/ bell, vell[2] best
/b/, /v/ → [β][3] abans, avanç[2] vest[3]
Deaffrication of /dʒ/ (in intervocalic position) /dʒ/ → [ʒ] dijous, fugir genre
(Note for transcriptions of Northwestern Catalan use the corresponding sounds of Standard Valencian and the sharing features with Standard Catalan)
Transcription of Insular Eastern Catalan
For transcriptions of
Insular Catalan
dialects:

See also

Notes

  1. ^
    devoiced (Carbonell & Llisterri (1999:63), Wheeler (2005
    :147–149)).
  2. ^ a b c d e f g While betacism (that is, the merging of /b/ and /v/ into one phoneme) is common in most speakers of Catalan and in Valencia, several dialects still contrast the two sounds (usually represented as ⟨b⟩ and ⟨v⟩ respectively in Catalan orthography). The contrast is also maintained in Standard Valencian (Carbonell & Llisterri (1999:61), Wheeler (2005:13)).
  3. ^
    devoiced stops, similar to English b, d, g and p, t, k. Exceptions include /d/ after a lateral consonant, and /b/ after /f/. In traditional non-betacist dialects, /b/ usually fails to lenite (Carbonell & Llisterri (1999:63), Wheeler (2005
    :10, 310–326)).
    • [β] (found only in the betacist varieties) is pronounced between /b/ and /v/, or just like /v/ but with both lips.
    • [ɣ] is pronounced between /ɡ/ and /h/, or roughly like /ɡ/ but without completely blocking the air flow.
  4. ^
    retracted
    [s̠, z̠, t̠s̠, d̠z̠] (with pronunciations closer to postalveolars /ʃ, ʒ, tʃ, dʒ/, respectively).
  5. ^ a b Catalan orthography distinguishes between ⟨ll⟩ (representing /ʎ/) and ⟨ŀl⟩ (representing a geminated /lː/). In regular speech gemination of ⟨ŀl⟩ is ignored altogether. Some dialects as well as young speakers can merge /ʎ/ with the glide [j] in a process similar to Spanish yeísmo.
  6. ^
    assimilate to the place of articulation of a following consonant (Rafel (1999:14), Wheeler (2005:166–204)). Before palatals, /l/ is [ʎ] and /n/ is [ɲ]. Before velars, /n/ becomes [ŋ] and before labial consonants, /n/ becomes [m]. The labiodental [ɱ
    ]     appears before /f/ and /v/.
  7. ^
    spirants [β, ð, ɣ], and /f/. Syllable-final /ɾ/ varies according to dialect, emphasis, morpheme and the following sound. In all Catalan dialects, except most of Valencian, /ɾ/ is lost in coda position in suffixes of nouns and adjectives denoting the masculine singular and in the infinitive suffixes of verbs, except when the following morpheme begins with a vowel, although this may vary (Carbonell & Llisterri (1999:63–64), Wheeler (2005
    :24–25)).
  8. interjections, the letter ⟨h⟩ is always silent
    .
  9. semivowels /j/ and /w/ can be combined with most vowels to form diphthongs and triphthongs (Carbonell & Llisterri (1999:62), Wheeler (2005:90–91)). For a list with all the combinations, see Catalan phonology § Diphthongs and triphthongs
    .
  10. ^ Many words that have /ɛ/ in Standard Catalan have /e/ in Standard Valencian. The latter is the historical pronunciation.
  11. ^
    unstressed position, the vowel contrast is reduced
    in all dialects.
    In Standard Eastern Catalan, unstressed [e] and [o] appear only in some words such as ídem [ˈiðem], oceans [useˈans], ego [ˈeɣo] and mouré [mowˈɾe]. In other cases, they merge with [ə] and [u] (Wheeler (2005:61–72)).
    In Standard Valencian, unstressed [ɛ] and [ɔ] occur in the process known as vowel harmony (e.g. corda [ˈkɔɾðɔ] and tela [ˈtɛlɛ]). In North-western, there are cases where only [ɛ] is found in final unstressed syllables: tela [ˈtɛlɛ].
  12. ^ a b The vowel /y/ is usually replaced by /u/ or /i/.
    • [y] is pronounced like /i/, but with the lips rounded.

Bibliography

  • Carbonell, Joan F.; Llisterri, Joaquim (1999), "Catalan", Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide to the Usage of the International Phonetic Alphabet, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 61–65,
    ISBN 978-0-521-63751-0
  • Rafel, Joaquim (1999), Aplicació al català dels principis de transcripció de l'Associació Fonètica Internacional (PDF) (3rd ed.), Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans,
    ISBN 84-7283-446-8
  • Wheeler, Max W. (2005), The Phonology Of Catalan, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
    ISBN 978-0-19-925814-7

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