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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Basque language 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 Basque dialects for a more thorough discussion of regional variation.

Consonants
IPA Examples English approximation
b bat best
β alaba[1] betweenbabyandbevy
c kuttun skew
d doa dead
ð adar[1] this
f foru face
ɡ gauak got
ɣ hego[1] between gold andahold
h hamar[2] hot
j jakintsu[3] you
ɟ onddo argue
k ke scan
l lagun lean
ʎ zailenak million
m maixu mother
n naharo need
ɲ ikurrina, ñaka[4] canyon
p piztu spouse
r urre[5] Spanish rojo
ʁ French Paris
ɾ zauri American Englishatom
zeru[6] sip[6]
uso between sipand ship (retracted), European Spanish hostia[6]
ʃ xehe ship[6]
t talde stand
ts̻ aitzin cats, pizza[6]
ts̺ urretsu betweencats andcatch (retracted), Serbo-Croatian biće[6]
tximist catch[6]
Vowels
IPA Examples English approximation
a gela father
e eder bed
i nire see
o aho bore
u hiru food
y hirü[7] roughly likecute


Diphthongs
IPA Examples English approximation
ai bai eye
oi doinu boy
ei leiho ray
au hau house
eu euri Italian / Spanish Europa
Suprasegmentals
IPA Examples English approximation
. gauak [ɡau.ak] moai
ˈ euskara [eusˈkaɾa][8] recycle (primary stress)
ˌ [example needed][9] motorcycle (secondary stress)

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Lenitionof/b d g/ occurs in regular speech in most Southern Basque dialects. Hualde (1991:99-100).
  • ^ Silent in Southern Basque dialects.
  • ^ The realisation of the grapheme j varies depending on dialect and can be [j, ʝ, ɟ, , ʒ, ʃ, χ]. The last, resembling Scottish English loch, is typical of Gipuzkoan, and it has also become common in eastern varieties of Biscayan and the Sakana variety of the Upper Navarrese. However, the standard pronunciation ruled by Euskaltzaindiais[j], and is the one followed in this help.
  • ^ Euskaltzaindia. "Ñ Letra". Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  • ^ The double rr is pronounced as a trill [r]inSouthern Basque dialects but is often a guttural [ʁ]inNorthern Basque dialects, especially among younger speakers. Trask (1978:77) Egurtzegi & Carignan (2020:2794, 2800).
  • ^ a b c d e f g Basque contrasts two consonants that sound similar to the /s/ of Englishː /s̻/, which is laminal, and /s̺/, which is apical. /ts̻/ and /ts̺/ are contrasted the same way. The contrast between /s̻, ts̻/, /s̺, ts̺/ and /ʃ, tʃ/ is similar to the contrast between /s, ts/, /ʂ, tʂ/ and /ɕ, tɕ/inPolish.
  • ^ Only occurring in Souletin.
  • ^ Stress in Basque is complex and varies between regions, the Euskaltzaindia broadly recommends high-pitched weak stress on the second syllable of a syntagma.
  • ^ Secondary stress is low-pitched and weaker than primary stress, with the recommendation being for it to be the last syllable broadly speaking.
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