Appendix:Gothic pronunciation
Appearance
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents the reconstruction of Gothic pronunciations in Wiktionary entries.
See Gothic language § Phonology at Wikipedia for a more thorough look at the sounds of Gothic.
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- Notes
- ^ An allophone of /b/ after a vowel; devoiced to /f/ before a voiceless consonant or at the end of a word
- ^ An allophone of /d/ after a vowel; devoiced to /θ/ before a voiceless consonant or at the end of a word
- ^ Possibly actually bilabial /ɸ/
- ^ An allophone of /ɡ/ after a vowel; devoiced to /x/ before a voiceless consonant or at the end of a word
- ^ But articulated further back on the hard palate, and long
- ^ An allophone of /n/ before /k(ʷ)/ or /ɡ(ʷ)/
- ^ Phonemic only in Greek loanwords; usually allophone of /ɡ/ after vowels and before a voiceless consonant or at the end of a word
- ^ Also transliterated aí
- ^ Also transliterated aú
- ^ Only in Greek loanwords
- ^ Also transliterated ái
- ^ Also transliterated áu