Wikipedia key to pronunciation of Breton
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Breton language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{IPA-br}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
See Breton dialects for a more thorough discussion of regional variation.
| Consonants
|
| IPA |
Examples |
English approximation
|
| b
|
bag
|
best
|
| x
|
sac'h
|
roughly like loch in Scottish English
|
| ɣ
|
troc'hañ
|
Spanish agua
|
| d
|
don
|
doe
|
| f
|
fri
|
face
|
| ɡ
|
gad
|
got
|
| h
|
had
|
hot
|
| ʒ
|
jot
|
measure
|
| k
|
kazh
|
scan
|
| l
|
lann
|
lean
|
| ʎ
|
kuilh
|
roughly like million
|
| m
|
mab
|
mother
|
| n
|
noz
|
need
|
| ŋ
|
anken
|
camping
|
| ɲ
|
kignez
|
roughly like canyon
|
| p
|
per
|
spouse
|
| r
|
roue
|
trilled r
|
| ʁ
|
roughly like loch (Scottish English) 'but voiced, like gh in Scottish Gaelic'
|
| s
|
skol
|
sack
|
| ʃ
|
sachañ
|
shine
|
| t
|
tal
|
sty
|
| v
|
aval
|
view
|
| z
|
azen
|
zeal
|
| Semivowels
|
| j
|
yod
|
yet
|
| w
|
gwenn
|
wet
|
| ɥ
|
kuit
|
like a simultaneous wet and yet
|
| Vowels
|
| monophthongs
|
| IPA |
Examples |
English approximation
|
| a
|
kas
|
trap
|
| ɑː
|
tad
|
bra
|
| e
|
boest
|
hey
|
| eː
|
per
|
|
| ɛ
|
gell
|
best
|
| ɛː
|
berr
|
red
|
| i
|
pik
|
see
|
| iː
|
biz
|
bee
|
| o
|
pok
|
go
|
| oː
|
dor
|
law (RP and Australian)
|
| ɔ
|
korn
|
off
|
| ɔː
|
torr
|
dog
|
| y
|
butun
|
roughly like Scottish shoot
|
| yː
|
uvel
|
roughly like Scottish shoes, like German über
|
| ə
|
ebeul (regional)
|
roughly like bird (RP) (no r-colouring)
|
| ø
|
peulvan
|
roughly like bird (no r-colouring)
|
| øː
|
eur
|
roughly like herd (no r-colouring), like German schön
|
| œ
|
feurm
|
roughly like hurt (no r-colouring), like French neuf
|
| u
|
toull
|
too
|
| uː
|
tour
|
pool
|
| Nasals
|
| ã
|
amzer
|
roughly like on (American English), nasalized [ɒ] or [ɑ]. rendez-vous
|
| ãː
|
anat
|
|
| ẽ
|
renk
|
|
| ẽː
|
enez
|
|
| ɛ̃
|
peñs
|
roughly like man (RP); nasalized [æ] or [ɛ]
|
| ɛ̃ː
|
eñvor
|
|
| ĩ
|
biñs
|
|
| ĩ
|
fiñval
|
like Hindi नहीं
|
| ɔ̃
|
tonn
|
roughly like bone (American English); nasalized [o] or [ɔ]
|
| ɔ̃ː
|
ton
|
|
| ỹ
|
puñs
|
|
| ỹː
|
unan
|
|
| œ̃
|
feunteun
|
|
| œ̃ː
|
deun
|
| Diphthongs
|
| IPA |
Examples |
English approximation
|
| ai
|
|
eye
|
| oi
|
|
boy
|
| ɔʊ
|
botoù
|
follow
|
| ei
|
eil
|
ray
|
| au
|
glav
|
house
|
| ɔu
|
paour
|
follow
|
| eu
|
bev
|
eh-oo or ey-oo
|
| wɑ
|
koad
|
roughly like water
|
| we
|
boued
|
roughly like way
|
| ɥi
|
skuizh
|
roughly like we
|
| iu
|
liv
|
ee-oo
|
Voiced and voiceless alternations
Consonants distributed for voiced/unvoiced contrast
| Voiceless
|
/p/ |
/f/ |
/t/ |
/s/ |
/ʃ/ |
/k/ |
/x/
|
| Voiced
|
/b/ |
/v/ |
/d/ |
/z/ |
/ʒ/ |
/ɡ/ |
/ɣ/
|
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