The charts below show the way in which the بین الاقوامی صوتیاتی ابجد represents مالٹی زبان pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.

See مالٹی زبان for a more thorough look at the sounds of Maltese.

حرف صحیحs
بین الاقوامی صوتیاتی ابجد Example English approximation
[[|b]] ballun boy
[[|d]] dar duck
[[|d͡z]] gazzetta pads
[[|d͡ʒ]] ġelat jail
[[|f]] fwieħa four
[[|ɡ]] gallettina game
[[|ħ]] ħadem somewhat like hat; Arabic ḥāʾ (ح)
[[|j]] jum yes
[[|k]] kelb scar
[[|l]] libsa look
[[|m]] mara mole
[[|n]] nadif no
[[|p]] paġna spat
[[|r]] re real, better (American English)[1]
[[|s]] saqaf sow
[[|ʃ]] xadina shell
[[|t]] tieqa stake
[[|t͡s]] zokk sits
[[|t͡ʃ]] ċavetta chew
[[|v]] vaska vet
[[|w]] warda wall
[[|z]] żaqq zoo
[[|ʔ]] Luqa RP button; Hebrew aleph (א)
مصوتs
بین الاقوامی صوتیاتی ابجد Example English approximation
[[|a]] fatt cut
[[|ɐː]] rani father
[[|ɛ]] belt met
[[|eː]] dehra like head, but longer
[[|iː]] dik like bid, but longer
[[|ɪ]] wisa bit
[[|ɪː]] wied need
[[|ɔ]] moħħ got (RP)
[[|oː]] sod core
[[|uː]] mur pool
[[|ʊ]] kuntratt look
Diphthongs
بین الاقوامی صوتیاتی ابجد Example English approximation
għajn ,għid light
għid hate
għum code
øʊ/ø: ewwel code(RP English/eu/oeu in french
għawn how
bojod boy
Suprasegmentals
بین الاقوامی صوتیاتی ابجد Explanation
◌ˤ pharyngealised vowel
◌ː long vowel or geminate consonant;
consonants occur both long and short word-medially and word-finally
. ہجا break
ˈ stress

حواشی ترمیم

  1. The realization of the phoneme /r/ varies; some speakers pronounce it as an approximant [[[|ɻ]]] virtually identical to that used for real in the western United States, while others pronounce it as a tap [[[|ɾ]]], similar to the pronunciation of ⟨t⟩ and ⟨d⟩ between vowels in American and Australian English. When geminated, it may be pronounced as a lengthened approximant [ɻː], a tap [ɾ], or a trill [[[|r]]].

حوالہ جات ترمیم

  • Elizabeth Hume (1996)۔ "Coronal consonant, front vowel parallels in Maltese"۔ Natural Language & Linguistic Theory۔ 14 (1): 163–203