Help:IPA/Albanian

This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Albanian on Wikipedia.

It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Albanian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.

For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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

Consonants
IPA	Orthography	English approximation	Examples
b	b	bat	bujtinë
c	q	chance	qytet
d	d	debt	direk
dz	x	goods	xibërrishtë
dʒ	xh	jet	xhevahir
ð	dh	then	dhellak
f	f	far	faleminderit
ɡ	g	go	galdohet
h	h	hat	histori
j	j	yes	jetë
ɟ	gj	jar	gjueti
k	k	scar	kur
l	l	lean	lojë
ɫ	ll	bull	llaçkë
m	m	man	mënyrë
n	n	not	nëntë
ɲ	nj	canyon	njeri
ŋ	ng	bang	ardhang
p	p	spend	puna
r	rr	rolled r^[1]	rrushi
ɾ	r	American atom^[1]	refuzoj
s	s	son	sigurt
ʃ	sh	show	shko
t	t	stand	tahmin
ts	c	hats	capitje
tʃ	ç^[2]	chin	çmendur
v	v	van	vërtetë
z	z	zip	zinxhir
ʒ	zh	vision	zhulicë
θ	th	thin	thuaj

Vowels
IPA	Orthography	English approximation	Examples
a	a	father	kaq
ɛ	e	bed	me
ə	ë	about	për
i	i	seed	çift
ɔ	o	off (Tosk)	noc
o	o	story (Gheg)	lloj
u	u	cool	nuk
y	y	somewhat like cute	plym

Suprasegmentals
IPA	Examples	Explanation
ˈ	gjahtar [ɟahˈtaɾ]	primary stress (placed before the stressed syllable)

^ ^a ^b The contrast between flapped r and trilled rr is the same as in Spanish. English does not phonemically have either sound.
^ The letter ⟨ç⟩ is sometimes written ⟨ch⟩ due to technical limitations or because of its use in English for the same sound and its analogy to the other digraphs ⟨xh⟩, ⟨sh⟩, and ⟨zh⟩. Usually, it is written simply ⟨c⟩ or, more rarely, ⟨q⟩, with the context resolving any ambiguities.

[r,rr-1] The contrast between flapped r and trilled rr is the same as in Spanish. English does not phonemically have either sound.

[2] The letter ⟨ç⟩ is sometimes written ⟨ch⟩ due to technical limitations or because of its use in English for the same sound and its analogy to the other digraphs ⟨xh⟩, ⟨sh⟩, and ⟨zh⟩. Usually, it is written simply ⟨c⟩ or, more rarely, ⟨q⟩, with the context resolving any ambiguities.

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