Help:IPA/Bulgarian

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 Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

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

Consonants

IPA	Letters	Examples	English approximation
b	б	баба	box
c	к	кюфте	cute
d	д	дом	dust
d͡z	дз	дзифт	birds
d͡ʒ	дж	джем	jab
f	ф	филм	fact
ɡ	г	гарван	good
ɟ		гяур	argue
j	й, ь	сойка	yes
k	к	къща	skill
l	л	лимон	leap
ɫ		лош	all
ʎ		любов	million
m	м	море	mocha
n	н	нос	north
ɲ		баня	canyon
p	п	пет	speak
r	р	работа	trilled r, like in Spanish
s	с	стол	salt, mask
ʃ	ш	шума	sugar
t	т	тайна	style
t͡s	ц	цар	bats
t͡ʃ	ч	чай	cheese
v	в	вода	view
w	у, л	уиски, лош (colloquial)	water
x	х	хартия	loch (Scottish English)
z	з	зима	zoo
ʒ	ж	жълт	pleasure

Marginal consonants

IPA	Examples	English approximation
ɣ	видях го	between go and ahold
ç	Хюз	huge
ŋ	банка	sing

Vowels

IPA	Letters	Examples	English approximation
a	а	брат	father
ɤ	ъ	кът	plus
ɛ	е	цена	edge
i	и	сив	police
ɔ	о	слон	off
u	у	хубав	pool

Reduced vowels

IPA	Letters	Examples	English approximation
ɐ	а, ъ	щерка, камък	sofa
o	о, у	нещо, уста	thought (RP), coat (Scottish English)

Other symbols

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

Sources

• Sabev, Mitko (2015). Reduction of unstressed central and back vowels in Contemporary Standard Bulgarian (PDF). Glasgow, UK: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
• Scatton, Ernest A. (1984). A Reference Grammar of Modern Bulgarian.
• Zhobov, Valdimir (2004). Звуковете в българския език [The Sounds of the Bulgarian Language].

See also

• Category:Pages with Bulgarian IPA (732)