Help:IPA for Hejazi Arabic
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The charts below show how the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Hejazi Arabic language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.
See Hejazi Arabic phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Urban Hejazi Arabic.
The romanization of the examples is based on the romanization system used on Wiktionary.
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The phonemes /θ/ and /ð/ only occur in Classical Arabic borrowings and loanwords.
- ↑ [ðˤ] is an optional allophone for ⟨ظ⟩ in Classical Arabic words. In general, most urban Hejazi speakers pronounce it as /zˤ/ or merge it with /dˤ/ depending on the word.
- ↑ The classicized allophone [q] only occur in Classical Arabic borrowings and proper nouns.
- ↑ the phoneme /ɫ/ only occurs in the word الله /aɫɫaːh/ ('god') and words derived from it (e.g. يلاّ /jaɫɫa/ "come on").
- ↑ the phonemes /p/ and /v/ are only found in loanwords and they can be pronounced as /b/ and /f/ respectively depending on the speaker.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 ([e̞] and [i] are allophones of the phoneme /i/) Word initial and medial /i/ in stressed syllables typically vary across [i] ~ [e̞]. but it's strictly [i] at the end of words, in unstressed syllables and before /j/.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 ([o̞] and [u] are allophones of the phoneme /u/) Word initial and medial /u/ in stressed syllables typically vary across [u] ~ [o̞]. but it's strictly [u] at the end of words, in unstressed syllables and before /w/.
