Help:IPA/Bulgarian

Template:IPA key The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Standard Bulgarian pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Template:Section link.

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

Consonants

IPA	Letters	Examples	English approximation
Template:IPAlink	б		box
Template:IPAlink	к		cute
Template:IPAlink	д		dust
Template:IPAlink	дз		birds
Template:IPAlink	дж		jab
Template:IPAlink	ф		fact
Template:IPAlink	г		good
Template:IPAlink			argue
Template:IPAlink	й, ь		yes
Template:IPAlink	к		skill
Template:IPAlink	л		leap
Template:IPAlink			all
Template:IPAlink			million
Template:IPAlink	м		mocha
Template:IPAlink	н		north
Template:IPAlink			canyon
Template:IPAlink	п		speak
Template:IPAlink	р		trilled r, like in Spanish
Template:IPAlink	с		salt, mask
Template:IPAlink	ш		sugar
Template:IPAlink	т		style
Template:IPAlink	ц		bats
Template:IPAlink	ч		cheese
Template:IPAlink	в		view
Template:IPAlink	у, л		water
Template:IPAlink	х		loch (Scottish English)
Template:IPAlink	з		zoo
Template:IPAlink	ж		pleasure

Marginal consonants

IPA	Examples	English approximation
Template:IPAlink		between go and ahold
Template:IPAlink		huge
Template:IPAlink		sing

Vowels

IPA	Letters	Examples	English approximation
Template:IPAlink	а		father
Template:IPAlink	ъ		plus
Template:IPAlink	е		edge
Template:IPAlink	и		police
Template:IPAlink	о		off
Template:IPAlink	у		pool

Reduced vowels

IPA	Letters	Examples	English approximation
Template:IPAlink	а, ъ		sofa
Template:IPAlink	о, у		thought (RP), coat (Scottish English)

Other symbols

IPA	Description
	Stress on the following syllable
	Secondary stress on the following syllable

See also

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