The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Elvarri pronunciations. English approximations are loose in some cases and are only intended to give a general idea of the pronunciation. For more information, see Help:IPA.
| Consonants
|
| IPA |
Example |
English
approximation
|
| b |
bo |
body
|
| d |
tades |
door
|
| ð |
vard[1] |
that
|
| dz |
lads
|
| f |
farfa |
fight
|
| ɡ |
gort |
good
|
| ɣ |
arga[1] |
good
but without the tongue touching the soft palate
|
| h |
farfa[1] |
hat
|
| j |
iomalo |
youth
|
| k |
vertuk, kavin |
cat
|
| l |
glei |
law
|
| ɭ |
ollerfa |
roughly like GA Carl
|
| m |
mur |
map
|
| n |
hond |
nice
|
| ŋ |
gnebe, vanko |
swimming, playing
|
| ɳ |
ennart |
GA corn
|
| ɲ |
tanya, nyazet |
canyon
|
| p |
teps |
party
|
| r |
tor |
Spanish perro
|
| s |
sis |
star
|
| ʂ |
hassi |
roughly like shoe
|
| t |
tades |
take
|
| θ |
ennarto[1] |
through
|
| ts |
cats
|
| v |
vanu |
vat
|
| w |
weva |
woo
|
| x |
hassi |
loch
|
| z |
poz |
zoo
|
|
| Vowels
|
| IPA |
Example |
English
approximation
|
| a |
arga |
at
|
| ɛ |
elvar |
bed
|
| e |
dener[2] |
roughly like fit
|
| i |
irzevet |
feet
|
| ɔ |
ovo |
without cot-caught merger cot
|
| o |
murdo[2] |
RP bought
|
| u |
mur |
conservative RP boot
|
| Suprasegmentals
|
| IPA |
Example |
Description
|
| ˈ |
ovo [ˈɔvo] |
primary stress
|
| . |
duid [ˈdu.id] |
syllable break
|
|
- ^ a b c d /t, d, k, g, f, z/ become /θ~ts~ʔ, ð~dz, x, ɣ, h, s~ʂ/ after /r/. This process is called hurdaski or hurhassi.
- ^ a b /ɛ ɔ/ become /e o/ when unstressed.