Help:IPA/Tuvaluan

This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Tuvaluan on Wikipedia.

It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Tuvaluan in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.

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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Tuvaluan 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.

Consonants
IPA	Letter	Examples	English approximation
f	f	fakakai	fat
h^[1]	h	tahi	hat
k	k	kai	kite
l	l	lagi	lake
m	m	matagi	me
n	n	niu	no
ŋ	g	matagi	singer
p	p	pele	spell
s^[2]	s	se	say
t	t	atua	still
v	v	vai	van

Vowels
IPA	Letter	English approximation
a	a	father
aː	a	father
e	e	pen
eː	e	pen
i	i	happy
iː	i	happy
o	o	cord
oː	o	cord
u	u	you
uː	u	you

Suprasegmentals
IPA	Example	Explanation
ˈ◌	vakalele [ˌvakaˈlele]	primary stress (placed before the stressed syllable)
ˌ◌	vakalele [ˌvakaˈlele]	secondary stress (placed before the stressed syllable)
ː	llei [ˈlːe.i]	gemination (placed after the geminated consonant)

Notes

↑ Mainly found in northern dialects.
↑ Mainly found in southern dialects.

[1] Mainly found in northern dialects.

[2] Mainly found in southern dialects.

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