Help:IPA/Sicilian

The charts below show how the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Sicilian 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 Sicilian orthography for a more thorough look at the sounds of Sicilian.

Consonants[1]
IPA Examples English approximation
b bancheri, abbentu, campu[2] bike
c chiancheri, cchiù, chiḍḍu askew
ç ciumi, çiuçiari, xuri huge
d denti, sarda, addumannari done (with the tongue touching the teeth)
dz cunzigghiu, panza, n sicilianu dads
Giappuni, lèggiri, manciari[2] jab
ɖ beḍḍu, cavaḍḍu, nuđđu, dragunara, cuntrariu[2] done (Indian English)
f figghiu, cufuruna, nfamia fast
ɡ (ɡ)[3] aggrancari, gula, jancu gas
ɟ figghia, àghiru, gherciu, tri jorna, jìnchiri Montague
k canigghia, accussì, quarru, muncu scar
l valanza, còllira let
m mèttiri, lemmu mother
ɱ nfarrainari, nvernu symphony
n novu, cunnùciri, nzèmmula nice
ŋ loncu, ngrisi, sangu singing
ɳ landreḍḍu, contra roughly like corndog
ɲ lagnusìa, gnuranti, nchiostru roughly like canyon
p tuppu, pirchì, sìmprici spin
r rùmpiri, parrata trilled r or leisure
ɾ cornu, lu denti atom (American English)
ɽ àutri, mandracchiu try
s sugnu, spiari, cassulari sorry
ʂ strata, mastru shred
ʃ cascia, pisci, scena[2] ship
t tanticchia, stritta, muntunarìa star (with the tongue touching the teeth)
ts zappagghiuni, pizzulari, canzuna, n sicilianu[2] cats
pacenzia, vucceri, canciamentu clentch or clash
ʈ àutri, quatratu, cuntrariu stray (Indian English)
v vucca, aviri, avvucatu, nfamia vent
z sbagghiu, sdisinnata, rosmarina zest
Semivowels
IPA Examples English approximation
j jinnaru you
w quannu, acqua, guadagnu wine
 
Vowels
IPA Examples English approximation
Stressed vowels
a squatra, càdiri, cità father
ɛ beni, tèniri, cafè bed
i stidda, arrìmula, ripitì see
ɔ sonu, vòmmira, masinnò off
u zùccuru, curnutu, nacchiù tool

Notes

  1. ^ If a consonant is doubled after a vowel, it is geminated. In IPA, gemination can be represented either by doubling the consonant (fattu /ˈfattu/) or by the length marker ⟨ː⟩. Sicilian, like standard Italian, also has a sandhi phenomenon called syntactic gemination, generally not represented graphically: e.g. è loncu with [ll].
  2. ^ a b c d e /b/, /dʒ/, /ɖ/, /ɲ/, /ʃ/ and /ts/ are always geminated after a vowel, before a vowel or a semivowel.
  3. ^ If the two characters ɡ and do not match and if the first looks like a γ, there is a default font. See Help:IPA § Rendering issues.

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