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ThechartsbelowshowthewayinwhichtheInternationalPhoneticAlphabet(IPA)representsFrench
pronunciationsinWikipediaarticles.
Englishapproximationsareinsomecasesveryroughandintendedtogiveonlyageneralideaofthe
pronunciation.SeeFrenchphonologyforamorethoroughlookatthesounds.Forinformationonhowto
convertspellingtopronunciation,seeFrenchorthography.
FrenchhasnowordlevelstresssostressmarksshouldnotbeusedintranscribingFrenchwords.Seeherefor
details.

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Vowels[4]
Oralvowels

Consonants
English
IPA Examples
approximation

b bon
deux,

d grande
f faire,vif

about

IPA

today

a patte,l

trap(modernRPand
NorthernEnglish)

festival

pte,glas[5]

bra

cl,les,chez,aller,

garon,
again
longue
k corps,avec sky

laisser,
possible,
seul

m mme
nous,

n bonne

e pied,journe

baie,faite,mettre,

renne,crme,peine

loo

moo

pre,

regarder,
ntre[1]

sans,a,
assez

chance

fte,matre,mtre,
reine,retre,caisse,
presse,Lemaistre,
Lvesque[5]
le,reposer,monsieur,

red

sur,jeune

roughlylikebird(RP)

ceux,jener,queue

roughlylikebird

roughlylikeloch
(ScottishEnglish)but
voiced,like"gh"in
ScottishGaelic

o sot,haut,bureau

go(ScottishEnglish)

sort,minimum

lot(RP/Australian)

u coup,roue

too

sir

y tu,sr,rue

roughlylikecute

spy

sty

vous,
wagon,
neuf
heures

view

daim,plein,Reims,

zro,
raison,
chose

roughlylikeman
(RP)nasalized[]or
synthse,sympa,bien []

measure

un,parfum[5]

roughlylikebun
nasalized[]

son,nom

roughlylikebone
(AmericanEnglish)
nasalized[o]or[]

Nonnativeconsonants

jam

camping,
bingo[2]

camping

Datcha,
ciao,
sandwich

China

roughlylikeon
(AmericanEnglish),
nasalized[]or[].
rendezvous

vin,impair,pain,

zeal

Djakarta,
jazz,
budget

bee

Nasalvowels

shoe

sans,champ,vent,
temps,Jean,taon

jamais,

best

again(oftenelided,
seeemuet)

tout,th,
grand
oncle

visage

hey

faisons
i si,le,rgie,y

no

gagner,
champagne roughlylikecanyon

p groupe

English
approximation

Examples

IPA

Suprasegmentals
Example
Explanation

[6]
moyen[mwaj]

phrasalstress

pays[pe.i][7]

syllableboundary

lesagneaux[lezao] liaison[8]

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jota,
loch(Scottish
khamsin[3] English)

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Semivowels
fief,payer,

j fille,

yet

travail

oui,loi,
moyen,
web,
whisky

wet

huit,Puy

likeasimultaneous
wetandyet

Notes
1.TheFrenchrhotic//isusuallyuvular,butitvariesbyregion.Forexample,inQubecboth[r]and[]areused,
dependingonbothregionandage.
2.InEuropeanFrench,//isoftenpronounced[],butinQubec,itismergedwith//.
3.Oftenreplacedby[].
4.Nasalvowelsarelengthenedbeforeanyconsonant,butoralvowelsarelengthenedbefore[v,,z,].
5.InParisFrench,/
/isusuallymergedwith//
,//with/a/and//with//.Thepairsmaybedistinguishedin
Belgian,SwissandCanadianFrenchandinsomeregionsofFranceoramongolderspeakers.
6.Thestressfallsonthelastfullsyllableofaphraseexceptinemphaticspeech.
7.Thesyllablebreak.isusedsparingly.
8.Inliaison,thelatentfinalconsonantispronouncedbeforeafollowingvowelsound,butsandxarevoicedand
pronounced[z],anddisunvoicedandpronounced[t].

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IPAkeys
AfrikaansAlbanianAmharicArabic(EgyptianHejaziTunisian)AramaicArmenianAssameseAsturian
AustralianlanguagesAzerbaijaniBasqueBelarusianBengaliBerberBretonBulgarianBurmeseCantonese
CatalanClassicalSanskritColognianCorsicanCzechDanishDariDutchEnglish(DialectsOldEnglish)
EsperantoEstonianExtremaduranFijianFinnishFrancoProvenalFrenchFrisian(SaterlandWest)Galician
GagauzGeorgianGerman(Alemannic)GreekGuaraniGujaratiHaitianCreoleHawaiianHebrew
HindiUrduHungarianIcelandicIndonesianInuktitutIrishItalianJapaneseJudaeoSpanishKashmiri
KazakhKhmerKlingonKoreanKouriViniKurdishLaoLatinLatvianLazLithuanianLuxembourgish
MacedonianMalagasyMalayMalayalamMalteseManchuMandarinManxMoriMarshalleseMayan
MingrelianMongolianMirandeseNahuatlNavajoNeapolitanNorthernThaiNorwegianOccitanOdia
OromoOsseticPersian(Farsi)PolishPortuguesePunjabiQuechuaRomanianRomanshRussian
ScottishGaelicSerboCroatianShanSlovakSloveneSpanishSvanSwaziSwedishTagalogTaiL
TaiwaneseHokkienTajikTamilThaiTibetanTigrinyaTurkishTurkmenUkrainianVenetianVietnamese
WalloonWandamenWelshXhosaYiddishZulu
Comparisons

withotherEnglishIPAconventionswithWikipediapronunciationrespellingkey
withU.S.dictionarytranscriptionwithotherEnglishpronunciationrespellingkeys

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