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Wikipedia key to pronunciation of Walloon
The chart below shows how the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Walloon language pronunciation 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 [1]
IPA
Examples
English approximation
b b arb ôjhe
b in
ç sch åyî[2] h ue
χ Scottish ch , German Bach
d d eût
d o
dʒ dj anvî
j eep
f f oû
f estival
ɡ g ayole, gu euye
g ain
h [2] h agnon
h atch
k stoumak , c wand
sk y
l l ére
l oo
m m onde
m oo
n n awe
n o
ɲ dign ité
roughly like cany on
p ap rinde
sp y
ʀ ar ester
French r èr e
s [3] s ûner, c énk, ç oula, diss u
s ing
ʃ ch al, sh ijhinme,[3] xh axh ler[2] sh elf
t t ins
st op
tʃ tch estea
ch ip
v v int
lov e
z z ûner
z oo
ʒ måjh on[2]
leis ure
Semivowels
j y ebe, be acôp
y es
w w alon, mo es
w ind
Notes
^ Walloon consonants are devoiced word-finally, i.e. /d/ changes to [t] , /dʒ/ to [tʃ] , /z/ to [s] , and so on. This is not shown in the spelling.
^ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The groups ⟨sch⟩ , ⟨jh⟩ and ⟨xh⟩ are all realized as simply [h ] in certain dialects. ⟨sch⟩ may also surface as [ʃ ] or [sk] .
^ 3.0 3.1 The digraph ⟨sh⟩ is pronounced [s] in some varieties, [ʃ] in others.
^ As in French, stress always falls on the last vowel in Walloon.
^ 5.0 5.1 /ɑː/ and /ɑ̃/ show variation with [aː ] /[ɔː ] /[oː ] and [ɔ̃ ] , respectively.^ 6.0 6.1 Open-mid /ɛː/ and /ɛ̃/ may be close-mid [eː] and [ẽ] .
^ Merges with [yː ] in some dialects.
References See also
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