Rhymes:Betawi

On rhymes in Betawi

A pair of words are rhymes if their final syllables are pronounced identically.
The onset of the final syllables can be ignored as they are often not considered in traditional poetry.
- Example: denger, keblinger, and santer are rhymes as they all end with /-ər/, even though santer differs in having the final syllable starts with /t-/ instead of /ŋ-/.
Stress and intonation are suprasegmental features in Betawi, and are not considered when determining rhymes.

Dialectal differences

Betawi is a polycentric language with significant dialectal differences, mainly in lexicon but also phonology. In particular, reflexes of earlier /-a/, /-ah/, and /-aʔ/ may vary across dialects, with some keeping the three distinct but reflecting /-a/ variously as [-a], [-ɛ], and [-ɤː], some merging the first two to [-a] or [-ah], and yet there is also one that merges the three altogether to [-ɛ]. Rhymes for specific dialects thus should be nested under that dialect's IPA pronunciation guide. For example on the entry for kita:

IPA^(key): /ki.ta/, [ki.ˈta]
- Audio: (file)
(Bekasi) IPA^(key): [ki.ˈtah]
- Rhymes: -ah
(Meester) IPA^(key): [ki.ˈtɛ]
- Audio: (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛ
(Tanah Abang) IPA^(key): [ki.ˈtɤː]
Rhymes: -a
Hyphenation: ki‧ta