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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Czech 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.
- Samohlásky
- Souhlásky
- Digraphs
- Stress
Dlouhé samohlásky
Note: the difference between ⟨ú⟩ and ⟨ů⟩ is that ⟨ú⟩ occurs almost exclusively in the initial position or at the beginning of a word root in a compound, while ⟨ů⟩ can only occur in the middle or final position.
Háček samohlásky
The háček is the v-shaped diacriticalmark over several Czech consonants (namely: n, d, t, z, r, s) which alters the sound of the consonant. There is only one vowel in Czech that can take the háček, and that is the 'e'. The effect is to essentially add a 'y' sound to the beginning of the 'e' sound, as in 'yet'. There is an exception to this rule: whenever the preceding letter can carry the háček, the word is to be pronounced as if it was in fact there. So for example in "oběd" the "ě" is prono...
Dvojhlásky
A diphthong is a pair of vowels that form one grapheme (sound). In English, the 'ou' in 'out' form a diphthong; you do not pronounce the 'o' and the 'u' as separate sounds in that word. In Czech, there are three diphthongs: au, eu, and ou. When these groups come together at morpheme boundaries, they do not form dipthongs in standard Czech; for instance naučit, neučit, poučit ([-au-, -eu-, -ou-] or [-aʔu-, -eʔu-, -oʔu-]). Vowel groups ia, ie, ii, io, and iu in foreign words are likewise not re...
One interesting thing about the Czech language is that some consonants can act as vowels, which means that you may come across Czech words that appear to have far too many consonants for the number of vowels presented. 'Brno' [ˈbr̩.no] is such a word. (Brnois a city in the Czech Republic.) In cases such as these, knowledge of the actual sounds made...
Specifically, a digraph is a pair of characters used to write one phoneme (distinct sound) or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the two characters in sequence. Thus, while the character pair is not a letter, it represents a single sound.
In Czech, the primary stress is always on the first syllable of a unit (usually identical to a word). Of course, there are a few exceptions. The exceptions are: 1. Monosyllabic prepositions form a unit with following words (if the following word is not longer than three syllables). The stress is placed on the preposition: e.g. ˈPraha (Prague) --> ˈ...
A Czech vowel chart. Standard Czech contains ten basic vowel phonemes, and three diphthongs. The vowels are /a/, /ɛ/, /ɪ/, /o/, and /u/, and their long counterparts /aː/, /ɛː/, /iː/, /oː/ and /uː/. The diphthongs are /ou̯/, /au̯/ and /ɛu̯/; the last two are found only in loanwords such as auto "car" and euro "euro".
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The following chart shows a complete list of the consonant phonemes of Czech: Phonetic notes: [1] Sibilants /ʃ ʒ t͡ʃ d͡ʒ/ are laminal post-alveolars (usually not considered retroflex). [2] The approximant /l/ is mainly pronounced apico-alveolar, although a velarized pronunciation without a firm tongue tip contact is not unusual.
Mar 29, 2024 · Czech/Alphabet and Pronunciation. Czech alphabet consists of 42 normal Latin letters, some have an accent: All vowels can be either short (aeiouy), or long with acute ( čárka) (áéíóúůý). (This can denote a different word.)
It happens when one of the letters from the first group (b, g, v, d, z, h, ď, or ž) ends a word (led is pronounced ‘let ́) or starts a cluster of consonants that ends in one from the second (p, k, f, t, s, ch, ť, š) group (vstup is pronounced ‘fstup ́). It also happens vice‐versa when the last consonant of a cluster is from the ...
l, r, n, m all can be syllabic (pronounced as separate syllables). The following words all contain two syllables: jedl, kapr, sedm. f and g are used in words and names of foreign origin. Primary stress falls on the first syllable. When there is secondary stress, it falls on long vowels.
