The charts below show the way in which the بین الاقوامی صوتیاتی ابجد represents واندامین زبان pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.
| حرف صحیح
|
| IPA
|
Examples
|
English approximation
|
| [[|b]]
|
aibo
|
abate
|
| [[|β]]
|
kavi
|
between bat and vat
|
| [[|d]]
|
madiawi
|
day
|
| [[|g]]
|
maŋgar[1]
|
garden
|
| [[|j]]
|
yai[2]
|
yearn
|
| [[|k]]
|
kambu
|
kitten
|
| [[|m]]
|
romi
|
men
|
| [[|n]]
|
niau
|
name
|
| [[|ŋ]]
|
waŋgar
|
hang
|
| [[|p]]
|
pibata
|
peas
|
| [[|r]]
|
teri
|
trilled as in Spanish and Italian
|
| [[|s]]
|
apose
|
erase
|
| [[|t]]
|
tawa
|
tap
|
| [[|w]][2]
|
wona
|
women
|
| Non-Native Consonants
|
| [[|d͡ʒ]]
|
gaja
|
gem
|
| [[|l]]
|
apel
|
tell
|
| Vowels
|
| Monophthongs
|
| IPA
|
Examples in Wandamen
|
English Approximation
|
| [[|a]]
|
pam
|
cot (General American)
|
| [[|e]]
|
ret
|
play
|
| [[|i]]
|
musi
|
tea
|
| [[|o]]
|
mor
|
sold
|
| [[|u]]
|
kambu
|
boot
|
| Diphthongs
|
| au
|
rau
|
cow
|
| ai
|
ai
|
tie
|
| ei
|
memei
|
hay
|
| oi
|
amoi
|
coy
|
| ui
|
dui
|
Roughly like chewy
|
- ↑ The velar plosive [ɡ] is a marginal phoneme, it only appears following [ŋ].
- ^ ا ب Glides are not phonemic, they are allophones of high vowels.
- Gasser, Emily A., "Windesi Wamesa Morphophonology" (2014). Linguistics Graduate Dissertations. Paper 1. http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ling_graduate/1
- Gasser, Emily. 2015. Wamesa Talking Dictionary, pilot version. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://www.talkingdictionary.org/wamesa
