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Wikipedia key to pronunciation of Galician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Galician 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 Galician phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Galician.

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Consonants
IPAExamplesEnglish approximation
b baixo, vivir, weber best
β abaixo, vivir[1] between baby and bevy
d dedo dice
ð dedo[1] (dial. fazer) other
f faro, nafta, Philip face
ɡ galego ago
ɣ galego[1] between ago and ahold
ɟ lle, brillo argue
k cor, quen, quad, kelvin scan
l lúa, ballet luck
m ama, lamber mate
ɱ ninfa nymph
n ano, pensa not
ŋ unha, longo, un, yang, ítem singer
ɲ uña onion
p pés spouse
θ zoo, dez, facer,[2] theta thing
r ría, parra trilled r
ɾ fría, para, ar US atom
s seu, casa, este between sip and ship (retracted)[3]
ʃ xente, flash, beige (dial. as, dez) ship
t tempo stand
chave catch
v afgano[4] of
z mesmo[4] (dial. fazer, casa) between zone and genre (retracted)[3]
Dialectal consonants
IPAExamplesEnglish approximation
ħ ghato, trigho[5] hat
ʒ gente, queijo[6] genre
 
Non-native consonants
joule, gin, adagio joke
h hippy hook
ts tsar, pizza, hertz between cats and catch (retracted)
x kharxa, Bach[7] loch
Vowels
IPAExamplesEnglish approximation
a cadro, má art
ra, á[8] father
ɛ feltro, café set
e selo, télex they
i lima, dial, río, oïades ski
ɔ ovo, abiótico, ao fin off
o avoa, avó story
u mula, dual, rúa, argüír ruler
Unstressed word-final vowels[9]
ɐ hora, na unrest
ɪ onte, se toolkit
ʊ niño, termonuclear, do output
 
Semivowels
IPAExamplesEnglish approximation
j saia, cilio, pai, spray yet / boy
w tenue, bilingüe, pau, watt switch / cow
 
Suprasegmentals
IPAExamplesExplanation
ˈ Arousa [aˈɾowsɐ] primary stress
ˌ Vilamarín [ˌbilɐmaˈɾiŋ] secondary stress
. as [ˈri.ɐs] syllable break
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