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This page used to be a joint pronunciation table for both Estonian and Finnish. The two have now been separated and can be found here: Help:IPA/Estonian; Help:IPA/Finnish
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Estonian 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.
Aug 11, 2022 · The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Estonian pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters. See Estonian phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of ...
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The Finnish grammar and most Finnish words are very different from those in other European languages, because Finnish is not an Indo-European language. The two other national languages that are Uralic languages as Finnish are Estonian and Hungarian. Estonians and Finns usually may understand each other, but their languages are very different. Even ...
Finnish is a synthetic and an agglutinative language. This means that words in Finnish have a stem called "body", and other parts inside them which make up the meaning. Finnish is similar in this respect to the Japanese language and Turkic languages. In Finnish, there are 17 cases/word types (sanatyypit). You can think of a "case" as an ending adde...
Finnish is pronounced the way it is spelled. The pronunciation of some letters is similar to English. However: 1. 'j' is like English 'y' in 'yes' 2. 's' is like English 's' in 'sad' (never like 'z') 3. 'h' is always pronounced, even at the end of a syllablee.g. 'ahdas' ('narrow') 4. double vowelsmake the sound long 5. 'ä' is similar to 'a' in Engl...
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Estonian and Finnish pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. See Finnish phonology and Estonian language for a more thorough look at the sounds of these languages.
A nasal vowel, as with a Texas twang. [ä] Portuguese vá[vä] "go". A central vowel pronounced with the tongue position in the middle of the mouth; neither forward nor back. Signs below a letter. [a̯] English cow[kʰaʊ̯], koi[kʰɔɪ̯] This vowel does not form a syllable of its own, but runs into the vowel next to it.
