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Wikipedia key to pronunciation of Romanian
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Romanian 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 Romanian phonology and Romanian alphabet for a more thorough look at the sounds of Romanian.
Consonants
IPA Examples in Romanian
English approximation
b b anab out
d
d optod ay
dʒ [ 1] g erj oke
f f ocf ace
ɡ g olungh ie ag ain
h h ornh at
k c alch ipk ilogramq uasarsk ip
l
l unăl ove
m m icm oon
n
n orn ame
ŋ [ 2] lun g long
p p assp an
r
r acmar e
cur d (Scottish English
s
s ares un
ʃ ș arpesh ape
t
t arest op
ț arăcats
tʃ [ 1] c erch oose
v v alw attv oice
z
z idz one
ʒ j armeas ure
Non-native consonants
ɲ Salign y roughly like cany on
Vowels
IPA Examples in Romanian
English approximation
a a păroughly like fa ther
e e rouroughly like be t
ə română a bout
i i nelmi e bee t
ɨ î nsprecâ rnat rose s (for some English dialects
)
o o rașsto ry
u u dadu al foo l
Non-native vowels
ɑ̃ Hen ri ren dez-vous, roughly like on
ɛ̃ chemin de fer coq au vin , roughly like man
ø bleu , loe ss , chemin de fer roughly like si r
y ecru , fü hrer roughly like few
Semivowels [ 3]
IPA Examples in Romanian
English approximation
j i arnăcrei oane , rai , y ogay ou or boy
w băcău an , dulău , Tw itter w ine or cow
Diphthongs [ 3]
e̯a bea tă , Andreea short
[e ] followed by full
[a ya rd
e̯o vreo
short
[e ] followed by full
[o yaw n
o̯a foa rte , găoa ce
short
[o ] followed by full
[a wa gon
Other symbols
IPA
Examples
Explanation
ˈ dulău [duˈləw]
primary stress (placed before the stressed syllable)
ˌ extraordinar [ˌekstra.ordiˈnar]
secondary stress
. mie [ˈmi.e]
syllable marker, generally used between vowels in hiatus
ʲ [ 4] rupi [ˈrupʲ]
palatalization (placed after the palatalized consonant)
^ ] . Usually, the spelling of the Romanian word indicates the pronunciation, with the affricates spelled ț, c, g , with one letter, and the sequences spelled ts, tș, dj , with two. However, personal names are the most common exceptions.
^ Not a separate phoneme but an allophone of /n/ before velars .
^ a b The approximants /j/ and /w/ can appear before and after vowels, including the diphthongs /e̯a/ and /o̯a/ , in almost any combination.
^ Palatalization occurs only with a single final i .
Chițoran, Ioana (2001), The Phonology of Romanian: A Constraint-based Approach , Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter,
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