The charts below show how the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Venetian 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.

Consonants
IPA from Latin Examples[1] English approximation
C & N C, V & S N & E
b b barba, sbaro bike
k c coa, checa, tenca; karèga; quacio scar
d d, t dove, idra done
gl gèmo, giara; ġarón, ġen jab
f f f sfalto, fìnferli, frànboła fat
h[2] fìnferli, rufa; ahari, hémena fat or hat
ɡ g, c gato, figo, ghìngari, rughe gas
l l làrese, molton, stèla lip
l ɰ[3] l łate, goła roughly like toll
m m mare, rema mother
n n nasion, ànara nest
ŋ -n ladi, piro; óngara, venco, canpo[4] sing
ɲ gn, ni cugnà, gnaro; ñel, ñaña canyon
p p popà, despèrdere spin
ɾ[5] r rosto, vara atom (American English)
s s soto, baston, strassa sorry
θ s ts c, ti zata, marz, nòzze; çanpedon, petaça; cazhòt, zhèrzha thing, sorry or cats
t t talpa, butiro, gat star
cl cèrega, ciaro, moc'; ċave chip
v v, b, p vaca, ava vent
z s, c àseno, sbaro; io, ono; xe, piaxe zipper
ð z dz g, di, z zaino; żenòcio, franża; fredha, ordho; đanđivi, lapiđea this, zipper or dads
Marginal consonants[6]
IPA from Latin Examples English approximation
ʎ li artiglièr, batàglia million
ʃ s šchena, mešedà ship
ʒ - žal, ruža measure
 
Semivowels
IPA from Latin Examples English approximation
j i, li, jèri, ajo; lezièr; yacht you
w u suòr, aqua; web wine
 
Vowels
IPA from Latin Examples English approximation
a a aqua, man father
e e, i feta, paré pay
ɛ ghènga, perèr bed
i i fio, intrada see
o o, u bote, bogó law (British English)
ɔ fiòco, poro off
u u duto, dudolèr tool
 
Suprasegmentals
IPA - Examples English approximation
ˈ - poro [poˈnaɾo] bottle
ˌ - liberamente [ˌlibeɾaˈmeŋte] intonation
. - fio [ˈfi.o] moai

Notes

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  1. ^ There is not an unified Venitian orthography. The same sound is rappresented with various letters, depending on the writer. The same writer would usually use the same letter for on sound.
  2. ^ Only occurring between vowels in a small number of dialects around Feltre.
  3. ^ Often realized as a non-syllabic [] or omitted. In some dialects it is pronounced [l].
  4. ^ As in most Northern Italian languages, nasals do not assimilate their place of articulation to that of the following consonant, differently from what happens in standard Italian. In Venetian, [ŋ] (in Italian only occurring in /nɡ/, /nk/) is used in all nasal plus consonant clusters: e.g. canpo [ˈkaŋpo], cantoṅ [kaŋˈtoŋ].
  5. ^ The phoneme /r/ in Venetian is almost always an alveolar flap, but for some it may be retroflex [ɽ].
  6. ^ Only used in few dialects or in loanwords.

See also

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