Help:IPA for Cantonese
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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Cantonese pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.
See Cantonese phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Cantonese Chinese. Please note that English equivalents given in this page may only represent very approximate sounds to the original pronunciations.
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Notes[edit]
- ^ /kʷ/ is often merged with /k/ before /ɔː/ in Hong Kong Cantonese.
- ^ /kʷʰ/ is often merged with /kʰ/ before /ɔː/ in Hong Kong Cantonese.
- ^ Initial /ŋ/ is not pronounced in Hong Kong Cantonese by younger speakers, leaving a glottal stop /ʔ/ before a, e, o, and initial /n/ may be replaced by /l/.
- ^ Final /ŋ/ may be merged into /n/ in Hong Kong Cantonese, except after /ɪ, ʊ/. /i, u/ in diphthongs are equivalent to a final /j, w/. After rounded vowels, a i becomes /y/.
- ^ /ɛːu/ is pronounced only in colloquial speech.
- ^ The high level and high falling tones have merged to high level in Hong Kong Cantonese for most words.