Help:IPA/Māori

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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Māori on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Māori 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. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between , / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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Wikipedia key to pronunciation of Māori

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

See Māori phonology for detailed discussion of the phonology of Māori.

Consonants IPA Examples NZ English approximation f Whakatāne fat h Heretaunga hat k kea sky m Māori moon n tēnā not ŋ Ngāruawāhia sing p Paraparaumu ping ɾ Te Reo atom (with flapping) t Tongariro sty w waka we Stress IPA Example Note ˈ Ruapehu Placed before the stressed syllable. ˌ

Vowels IPA Examples NZ English approximation aː Māori father a Rangi around ɛː tēnā koe yeah ɛ Te Reo bed iː kīanga bee i iwi me ɔː tēnā kōrua awkward ɔ Omaoma cord ʉː Ngāi Tūhoe move ʉ Te Urewera moot Diphthongs IPA Examples NZ English approximation ae marae high ai Kaikōura sighing ao taonga house au Taupō toe oe toetoe voice oi poi boy ou toutouwai goal

Notes

1. ^ The voiceless bilabial fricative (similar to English wh as pronounced by those without the wine-whine merger) historically was the dominant realization of this sound. However, in contemporary Māori, the most common pronunciation is .
2. ^ Stress falls on the first long vowel or, if none, on the first diphthong. Otherwise, it is on the first syllable but never earlier than the fourth-last vowel in a word, with both long vowels and diphthongs counting twice.

See also

• Category:Pages with Māori IPA (112)