Help:IPA/French

The charts ablo shaw the way in which the Internaitional Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents French pronunciations in Wikipaedia airticles.

Consonants
IPA Examples
b bon
d deux, grande
f faire, vif
ɡ garçon, longue
k corps, avec
l laisser, possible, seul
m même
n nous, bonne
ɲ gagner, champagne
p père, groupe
ʁ regarder, nôtre
s sans, ça, assez
ʃ chance
t tout, thé, grand-oncle
v vous, wagon, neuf heures
z zéro, raison, chose
ʒ jamais, visage
Non-native consonants
dʒ Djakarta, jazz, budget
ŋ camping, bingo
tʃ Datcha, ciao, sandwich
x jota, khamsin
Semivowels
j fief, payer, fille, travail
w oui, loi, moyen, web, whisky
ɥ huit, Puy
Vouels
Oral vouels
IPA Examples
a patte, là
ɑ pâte, glas
e clé, les, chez, aller, pied, journée
ɛ baie, faite, mettre, renne, crème, peine
ɛː fête, maître, mètre, reine, reître, caisse, presse, Lemaistre, Lévesque
ə le, reposer, monsieur, faisons
i si, île, régie, y
œ sœur, jeune
ø ceux, jeûner, queue
o sot, haut, bureau
ɔ sort, minimum
u coup, roue
y tu, sûr, rue
Nasal vouels
ɑ̃ sans, champ, vent, temps, Jean, taon
ɛ̃ vin, impair, pain, daim, plein, Reims, synthèse, sympa, bien
œ̃ un, parfum
ɔ̃ son, nom
Suprasegmentals
IPA Example Explanation
ˈ moyen phrasal stress
. pays syllable boundary
‿ les agneaux liaison
IPA-French

Notes

  1. ↑ The French rhotic /ʁ/ is uisually uvular, but it varies bi region. For example, in Québec baith an are uised, dependin on baith region an age.
  2. ↑ In European French, /ŋ/ is eften pronoonced , but in Québec, it is merged wi /ɲ/.
  3. ↑ Eften replaced bi .
  4. ↑ Nasal vouels are lenthened afore ony consonant, but oral vouels are lenthened afore .
  5. ↑ a b c In Parisian French, /œ̃/ is uisually merged wi /ɛ̃/, /ɑ/ wi /a/ an /ɛː/ wi /ɛ/. The pairs mey be distinguished in Belgian, Swiss an Canadian French an in some regions o Fraunce or amang aulder speakers.
  6. ↑ The stress faws on the last full syllable o a phrase except in emphatic speech.
  7. ↑ The syllable break ⟨.⟩ is uised sparingly.
  8. ↑ In liaison, the latent final consonant is pronoonced afore a follaein vouel soond, but s an x are vyced an pronoonced , an d is unvyced an pronoonced .