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

See Māori phonology for detailed discussion of the phonology of Māori.

Consonants
IPA Examples NZ English approximation
ɸ Whakatāne fat, phone [1]
h Heretaunga hat
k kea sky
m Māori moon
n nā not
ŋ Ngāruawāhia sing
p Paraparaumu ping
ɾ Te Reo atom (with flapping)
t Tongariro sty
w waka we
Stress
IPA Example Note
ˈ Mount Ruapehu [ˈɾʉaˌpɛhʉ] Placed before the stressed syllable. [2]
ˌ
Vowels
IPA Examples NZ English approximation
Māori father
a Aotearoa cut
ɛː tēnā koe yeah
ɛ Te Reo bed, said
kīanga bee
i iwi me
ɔː tēnā kōrua awkward
ɔ Oamaru cord
ʉː Ngāi Tūhoe move
ʉ Te Urewera put
Diphthongs
ae marae lie
ai Kaikōura
ao taonga house
au Tau toe
oi poi like boy
oe toetoe like wet
ou toutouwai snow

Notes

  1. ^ The voiceless bilabial fricative [ ɸ (similar to English wh as pronounced by those without the wine-whine merger) historically was the dominant realization of this sound. However, in contemporary Māori, the most common pronunciation is [ f.
  2. ^ Stress falls on the first long vowel or on the first diphthong. Otherwise, it is on the first syllable but never earlier than the fourth-last vowel in a word, with both long vowels and diphthongs counting twice.

See also

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

See Māori phonology for detailed discussion of the phonology of Māori.

Consonants
IPA Examples NZ English approximation
ɸ Whakatāne fat, phone [1]
h Heretaunga hat
k kea sky
m Māori moon
n nā not
ŋ Ngāruawāhia sing
p Paraparaumu ping
ɾ Te Reo atom (with flapping)
t Tongariro sty
w waka we
Stress
IPA Example Note
ˈ Mount Ruapehu [ˈɾʉaˌpɛhʉ] Placed before the stressed syllable. [2]
ˌ
Vowels
IPA Examples NZ English approximation
Māori father
a Aotearoa cut
ɛː tēnā koe yeah
ɛ Te Reo bed, said
kīanga bee
i iwi me
ɔː tēnā kōrua awkward
ɔ Oamaru cord
ʉː Ngāi Tūhoe move
ʉ Te Urewera put
Diphthongs
ae marae lie
ai Kaikōura
ao taonga house
au Tau toe
oi poi like boy
oe toetoe like wet
ou toutouwai snow

Notes

  1. ^ The voiceless bilabial fricative [ ɸ (similar to English wh as pronounced by those without the wine-whine merger) historically was the dominant realization of this sound. However, in contemporary Māori, the most common pronunciation is [ f.
  2. ^ Stress falls on the first long vowel or on the first diphthong. Otherwise, it is on the first syllable but never earlier than the fourth-last vowel in a word, with both long vowels and diphthongs counting twice.

See also


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