Wikipedia / Help:IPA/French
Wikipedia / Help:IPA/French
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 .
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.
Examples | English approximation | ||
<big></big> | about | ||
<big></big> | today | ||
<big></big> | festival | ||
<big></big> | again | ||
<big></big> | sky | ||
<big></big> | law | ||
<big></big> | moo | ||
<big></big> | no | ||
<big></big> | canyon | ||
<big></big> | camping | ||
<big></big> | spy | ||
<big></big> | Scottish English loch, but voiced; Northumbrian burr | ||
<big></big> | sir | ||
<big></big> | shoe | ||
<big></big> | sty | ||
<big></big> | vein | ||
<big></big> | zeal | ||
<big></big> | measure | ||
<big></big> | yet | ||
<big></big> | wet | ||
<big></big> | between wet and yet | ||
Oral vowels | |||
Examples | English approximation | ||
<big></big> | trap | ||
<big></big> | father | ||
<big></big> | mace | ||
<big></big> | best | ||
<big></big> | fairy | ||
<big></big> | again (often elided, see ) | ||
<big></big> | seat | ||
<big></big> | bird (RP) | ||
<big></big> | burn (RP), German Österreich | ||
<big></big> | story | ||
<big></big> | off | ||
<big></big> | pool | ||
<big></big> | roughly like too in some dialects such as Australian; somewhat like cute in other dialects; German | ||
<big></big> | roughly like song | ||
<big></big> | roughly like hang or Spanish ángel
| ||
<big></big> | roughly like non-rhotic burn; nasalized | ||
<big></big> | roughly like Australian drawn
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Example | Description | ||
<big></big> |
| syllable boundary | |
<big></big> | , | ||