Help:IPA/Armenian
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 | This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Armenian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Armenian 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. |
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Armenian pronunciations in Wikipedia articles, based on Eastern Armenian and Western Armenian standard varieties. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
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Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Plosives and affricates that are voiced in Eastern Armenian /b d dz dʒ ɡ/ are voiceless aspirated /pʰ tʰ tsʰ tʃʰ kʰ/ in Western Armenian. "In some publications, the voiceless plosives [of Eastern Armenian] are also defined as ejectives or glottalised. Glottalised plosives occur in various Armenian dialects and can also be found in the Eastern Armenian vernacular based on the Yerevan dialect, but according to normative grammars, SMEA [Standard Modern Eastern Armenian] shows no glottalised voiceless plosives." Jasmine Dum-Tragut. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. London Oriental and African Language Library, 2007, ISSN 1382-3485; p. 17. Some dialects pronounce the Classical /B P P’/ as /B’ B P’/ (Sivas, Crimea, Poland) or /B’ P P’/ (Erzurum (Karin), Ararat plain, Tiflis) where ’ represents aspiration https://www.academia.edu/42817300/Armenian_Dialects
- ^ a b c d e f /p t ts tʃ k/ are not used in Western Armenian.
- ^ a b c d e Plosives and affricates that are tenuis /p t ts tʃ k/ in Eastern Armenian and Classical Armenian are voiced /b d dz dʒ ɡ/ in Western Armenian.
- ^ Allophone of /n/ before velar consonants.
- ^ The two rhotics represented as ⟨ռ⟩ and ⟨ր⟩ have merged to /ɾ/ in Western Armenian.
- ^ In Classical Armenian uses alveolar approximant [ɹ], while modern Iranian Armenian uses a retroflex approximant [ɻ]. Dolatian, Hossep, Sharifzadeh, Afsheen & Vaux, Bert. 2023. grammar of Iranian Armenian: Parskahayeren or Iranahayeren. Page 22
- ^ a b c Classical Armenian ⟨այ, ոյ, եայ⟩ are only found word-finally.
- ^ ⟨ե⟩ represents [jɛ] when word-initial.
- ^ a b ⟨ո⟩ represents [vɔ] when word-initial.