It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Icelandic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing
consensus on the
talk page first.
secondary stress (placed before the stressed syllable, e.g. afmælisdagur[ˈamailɪsˌtaːɣʏr̥])
Notes
^Hver is usually pronounced as if spelled kver. [xʷ] is a part of a dialect from the
Southern Region and is rare nowadays.
^Vowels are usually long if they are stressed and followed by no more than one consonant, double consonants counting as more than one. Vowel length is not
phonemic.
^
abcLong [ɛː,ɔː,œː] are most typically realized as smooth transitions from [ɪ,ʊ,ʏ] to [ɛː,ɔː,œː]. Thus, they are monophthongs phonologically and diphthongs phonetically (
Árnason 2011:60,
Gussmann 2011:71, 88).
It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Icelandic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing
consensus on the
talk page first.
secondary stress (placed before the stressed syllable, e.g. afmælisdagur[ˈamailɪsˌtaːɣʏr̥])
Notes
^Hver is usually pronounced as if spelled kver. [xʷ] is a part of a dialect from the
Southern Region and is rare nowadays.
^Vowels are usually long if they are stressed and followed by no more than one consonant, double consonants counting as more than one. Vowel length is not
phonemic.
^
abcLong [ɛː,ɔː,œː] are most typically realized as smooth transitions from [ɪ,ʊ,ʏ] to [ɛː,ɔː,œː]. Thus, they are monophthongs phonologically and diphthongs phonetically (
Árnason 2011:60,
Gussmann 2011:71, 88).