Help:IPA/Lithuanian

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

See Lithuanian phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Lithuanian.

IPA key

IPA Examples IPA Examples[1] English approximation
Consonants
b butas labiau boot; beautiful
d
du didelis do; adieu
dz
dzūkas dzʲ dziedas adze
ar iaugsmas jeans
f[2] fabrikas [2] fizika fool; few
ɡ galva
ɡʲ
gerai goo; argue
ɣ[2] halas
ɣʲ[2]
himnas between go and ahead
j jauna, ji yes, boy
k kas
kiek school; skew
ɫ
labas lietus pill; least
m mama miltai moot; mute
n
namas niekas noon; newt (for some
dialects
)
ŋ[3] ranka
ŋʲ[3]
rengti sang; sing
p padas pienas spoon; spew
r
ratas rėtis American atom, American catty
s
saulė siena soup; assume (for some
dialects
)
ʃ šaukštas ɕ šienas, šis sheet
t
tai ten stool; stew (for some
dialects
)
ts
caras tsʲ citrina cats
čaižus čia chip
v vanduo visi vapor; view
x[2] choras
[2]
chimera loch; huge
z
zaunyti zylė zoo; Zeus (for some
dialects
)
ʒ žodis ʑ žilas asia
IPA Examples English approximation
Vowels
ratas, kąsti father
ɛː tęsti last
æː retas bad
ɐ kas, ta putt
tėtė fairy
ɛ mesti met
vyras, į need
ɪ ji, kitas sit
voras chore
ɔ[2] choras off
rūta, namų moon
ʊ kur, du foot
Stress and tone
ˈ primary stress follows
ǐː "circumflex" or rising tone
îː "acute" or falling tone

Notes

  1. palatalized and unpalatalized consonants. Palatalized consonants are denoted by [ʲ] and are pronounced with the body of the tongue raised toward the hard palate
    , like the articulation of the y sound in yes.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Phonemes /f/, /fʲ/, /ɣ/, /ɣʲ/, /x/, /xʲ/, and /ɔ/ occur only in loanwords.
  3. ^
    ŋʲ] are allophones of /n/ and /nʲ/, respectively, before velar
    consonants.

See also