Help:IPA/French

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

French has no word-level stress so stress marks should not be used in transcribing French words. See French phonology and French orthography for a more thorough look at the sounds of French.

Consonants IPA Examples English approximation Template:IPAlink about Template:IPAlink today Template:IPAlink festival Template:IPAlink again Template:IPAlink sky Template:IPAlink law Template:IPAlink moo Template:IPAlink no Template:IPAlink canyon Template:IPAlink camping Template:IPAlink spy Template:IPAlink Scottish English loch, but voiced; Northumbrian burr Template:IPAlink sir Template:IPAlink shoe Template:IPAlink sty Template:IPAlink vein Template:IPAlink zeal Template:IPAlink measure Semivowels Template:IPAlink yet Template:IPAlink wet Template:IPAlink between wet and yet

Vowels Oral vowels IPA Examples English approximation Template:IPAlink trap Template:IPAlink father Template:IPAlink mace Template:IPAlink best Template:IPAlink fairy Template:IPAlink again (often elided, see ) Template:IPAlink seat Template:IPAlink bird (RP) Template:IPAlink burn (RP), German Österreich Template:IPAlink story Template:IPAlink off Template:IPAlink pool Template:IPAlink roughly like too in some dialects such as Australian; somewhat like cute in other dialects; German Nasal vowels Template:IPAlink roughly like song nasalized Template:IPAblink (Europe; Template:Error-smallTemplate:Category handler) or Template:IPAblink (Canada; Template:Error-smallTemplate:Category handler) Template:IPAlink roughly like hang or Spanish ángel nasalized Template:IPAblink (Europe; Template:Error-smallTemplate:Category handler) or Template:IPAblink (Canada; Template:Error-smallTemplate:Category handler) Template:IPAlink roughly like non-rhotic burn; nasalized Template:IPAblink Template:IPAlink roughly like Australian drawn nasalized Template:IPAblink (Europe; Template:Error-smallTemplate:Category handler) or Template:IPAblink (Canada; Template:Error-smallTemplate:Category handler) Suprasegmentals IPA Example Description Template:IPAlink Template:Error-smallTemplate:Category handler syllable boundary Template:Error-smallTemplate:Category handler , Template:Error-smallTemplate:Category handler liaison

See also

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