The chart below shows how the International Phonetic Alphabet(IPA) represents Walloon language pronunciation 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.
| Consonants[1] |
|---|
| IPA | Examples | English approximation |
| b |
barbôjhe |
bin |
| ç |
schåyî[2] |
hue |
| χ |
Scottish loch, German Bach |
| d |
deût |
do |
| dʒ |
djanvî |
jeep |
| f |
foû |
festival |
| ɡ |
gayole, gueuye |
gain |
| h[2] |
hagnon |
hatch |
| k |
stoumak, cwand |
sky |
| l |
lére |
loo |
| m |
monde |
moo |
| n |
nawe |
no |
| ɲ |
dignité |
roughly like canyon |
| p |
aprinde |
spy |
| ʀ |
arester |
French frère |
| s[3] |
sûner, cénk, çoula, dissu |
sing |
| ʃ |
chal, shijhinme,[3] xhaxhler[2] |
shelf |
| t |
tins |
stop |
| tʃ |
tchestea |
chip |
| v |
vint |
love |
| z |
zûner |
zoo |
| ʒ |
måjhon[2] |
leisure |
| Semivowels |
| j |
yebe, beacôp |
yes |
| w |
walon, moes |
wind |
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Notes
- Walloon consonants are devoiced word-finally, i.e. /d/ changes to [t], /dʒ/ to [tʃ], /z/ to [s], and so on. This is not shown in the spelling.
- The groups ⟨sch⟩, ⟨jh⟩ and ⟨xh⟩ are all realized as simply [h] in certain dialects. ⟨sch⟩ may also surface as [ʃ] or [sk].
- The digraph ⟨sh⟩ is pronounced [s] in some varieties, [ʃ] in others.
- As in French, stress always falls on the last vowel in Walloon.
- /ɑː/ and /ɑ̃/ show variation with [aː]/[ɔː]/[oː] and [ɔ̃], respectively.
- Open-mid /ɛː/ and /ɛ̃/ may be close-mid [eː] and [ẽ].
- Merges with [yː] in some dialects.