HELP:IPA KAZAKH

This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Kazakh on Wikipedia.

It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Kazakh 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.

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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Kazakh 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.

IPA	Cyrillic	Latin	Arabic	English approximation
Consonants
b	б	b	ب	above
β	б	b	ب	somewhat like lava, but without the lips touching the teeth
ɕ	ш, щ	ş, şç	⟨ش⟩, ⟨شش⟩,	sheep
d	д	d	د	dice
f	ф	f	ف	fat
ɡ	г	g	گ	agree
h	һ	h	ھ	hat
j	й	i	ي	yard, boy
k	к	k	ك	skate
l	л	l	ل	lie
m	м	m	م	moon
n	н	n	ن	no
ɴ	ң	ñ	ڭ‬	somewhat like bong, but further back in the mouth
ŋ	ң	ñ	ڭ‬	sing
p	п	p	پ	spare
q	қ	q	ق	somewhat like ska, but further back in the mouth
ɾ	р	r	ر	GA atom
ʁ	ғ	ğ	ع	French rouge
s	с	s	س	sick
t	т	t	ت	stick
ts	ц	ts	تس	cats
tɕ	ч	ç	چ	cheat
v	в	v	ۆ	vase
ɣ	г	g	گ	go but without completely blocking airflow on the g
w	у	u	ۋ	water, low
χ	х	h	ح‬	Scottish loch
z	з	z	ز	zone
ʑ	ж	j	ج	pleasure

IPA	Cyrillic	Latin	Arabic	English approximation
Vowels
ɑ	a	a	ا	father
æ	ә	ä	ٵ‬	cat
e	е, э	e	ە	bed
ə	ы	y	ى	about
əj	и	i	ٸ	somewhat like price
jɪ	е, э	e	ە	yell
ɪ	і	ı	ٸ	kit
o	о	o	و	somewhat like no
ø	ө	ö	ٶ‬	nurse
ʊ	ұ	ū	ۇ‬	wood
ʏ	ү	ü	ٷ	somewhat like cute

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Comparisons	IPA conventions for English English dialects Wikipedia pronunciation respelling Other English pronunciation respellings
Introductory guides	Symbols For English speakers Manual of Style: Pronunciation

v t e International Phonetic Alphabet keys
Adyghe Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Modern Standard Egyptian Hejazi Lebanese Tunisian Armenian Assamese Asturian Australian languages Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Berber Breton Bulgarian Burmese Catalan / Valencian Standard Insular Chinese Mandarin Cantonese Hokkien Jin Wu Xiang Corsican Czech Danish Dari Dutch English Old English Emilian-Romagnol Esperanto Estonian Extremaduran Fijian Finnish Franco-Provençal French Galician Georgian German Standard Alemannic Colognian Greek Greenlandic Gujarati Haitian Creole Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Indonesian Inuktitut Inupiaq Irish Isan Italian Central Japanese Kazakh Khmer Korean Kurdish Kyrgyz Lakota Lao Latin Latvian Ligurian Lithuanian Lombard Luxembourgish Macedonian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Manx Māori Marathi Marshallese Mauritian Creole Mayan Mongolian Mirandese Nahuatl Navajo Neapolitan Nepali Northern Thai Norwegian Occitan Odia Pashto Persian Piedmontese Polish Portuguese Punjabi Quechua Romanian Romansh Russian Sanskrit Sardinian Scottish Gaelic Serbo-Croatian Shan Sicilian Slovak Slovene Sorbian Spanish Swahili Swazi Swedish Sylheti Tagalog Tai Lue Tajik Tamil Tatar Telugu Thai Tibetan Tigrinya Tlingit Turkish Turkmen Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Venetian Vietnamese Walloon Welsh West Frisian Xhosa Yiddish Yoruba Zhuang Zulu
Comparisons	IPA conventions for English English dialects Wikipedia pronunciation respelling Other English pronunciation respellings
Introductory guides	Symbols For English speakers Manual of Style: Pronunciation

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