Help:IPA for Afrikaans

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Afrikaans pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.

See Afrikaans phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Afrikaans, as well as dialectal variations that are not represented here.

Consonants
IPA	Examples	English approximation
b	beet	beet
d	dak	den
f	fiets, ver	fast
ɦ	had	behind
j	jas	yard
k	kat	skin
l	land	land
m	mens	man
n	nek	neck
ŋ	eng	long
p	pen, rib	sport
r	ras	rolled r
s	sok, zeep	sock
ʃ	sjabloon, chef	shall
t	tak, had	stop
tʃ	Tsjechië tjek	chat
χ	acht, weg	loch (Scottish English)
v	wang	velvet
ʒ	jury	vision
Marginal consonants
ʔ	beëindig [bəˈʔəindəχ]	the catch in uh-oh!
dʒ	Jakarta	jump
ɡ	goal^[1]	goal
z		zoo
Stress
ˈ	vóórkomen voorkómen	as in commandeer /ˌkɒmənˈdɪər/
ˌ	vóórkomen voorkómen	as in commandeer /ˌkɒmənˈdɪər/

Vowels
IPA	Examples	English approximation
Monophthongs (oral)
ɐ	bad	duck
ɑː	aap	father
æ	vertrek, pêl	back
æː	perd, grênd	jazz
ɛ	met	met
ɛː	sê	Modern RP square
ə	vis, hemel, vanaand^[2]	again
əː	wîe^[3]	fur
i	diep	deep
iː	spieël, bier^[4]	need
ɔ	bot	thought
ɔː	môre^[5]	law
œ	hut	roughly like hug
œː	rûe^[5]	roughly like hug
u	hoed	boot
uː	koeël, moer^[4]	food
y	fuut	roughly like cute
yː	muur^[4]	roughly like cue
Monophthongs (nasal)
ɐ̃ː	dans	No English equivalent, long nasalized [ɐ]
ɛ̃ː	mens	No English equivalent, long nasalized [ɛ]
ɔ̃ː	spons	No English equivalent, long nasalized [ɔ]
Diphthongs
ɐi	baie	price
ɑːi	draai	prize
eə	beet, ezel	rhea
eø	neus	roughly like nurse
əi	byt	may
iu	sneeu	free will
oə	boot	poor
oːi	nooi	boys
œi	buit	house (Scottish English)
œu	jou, dauw	boat

Notes

↑ /ɡ/ is not a native phoneme of Afrikaans and only occurs in loanwords, like goal or when /k/ is voiced, like in sakdoek [ˈsɐɡduk]. It also occurs as an allophone of /χ/.
↑ In some words (such as vanaand), the unstressed allophone of /ə/ is written ⟨a⟩ (Donaldson (1993:4, 6)).
↑ /əː/ occurs only in this word (Donaldson (1993:7)).
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 As phonemes, /iː/ and /uː/ occur only in the words spieël and koeël, respectively. In other cases, [iː] and [uː] occur as allophones of, respectively, /i/ and /u/ before /r/. /y/ is also lengthened to [yː] before /r/ (Donaldson (1993:4–6)).
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 /œː/ and /ɔː/ occur only in a few words (Donaldson (1993:7).