Help:IPA/Haitian Creole
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Haitian Creole pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{IPA-ht}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
There are no silent letters in Haitian Creole unless a word is written with the traditional orthography.
See Haitian Creole phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Haitian Creole.
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Notes
- ^ a b The contrast between [ɣ] and [w] is lost before rounded vowels, and the two phonemes merge then as [w]. Some orthographies of Haitian Creole follow the etymology of the word by using ⟨r⟩ for [w] before a rounded vowel if it comes from an original [ɣ]: gro [ɡwo] ('big' cf. French gros [ɡʁo]). The official orthography follows the modern pronunciation of the word and uses ⟨w⟩ for [w] in all cases and so [ɡwo] is spelled ⟨gwo⟩.
- ^ [ɥ] is always followed by [i].
- ^ When [n] follows an oral vowel, a grave accent ⟨`⟩ is written on the vowel before ⟨n⟩: ⟨èn⟩ represents [ɛn], ⟨òn⟩ represents [ɔn], and ⟨àn⟩ represents [an]. The oral pronunciation occurs also when ⟨n⟩ is followed by another vowel.