Wiktionary:About Somali

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This page deals with Somali entries.

Notation and orthography

Page names should follow the standard Latin orthography for Somali, i.e., without diacritics. However, for headwords, vowel diacritics should be used to indicate tone and front vowels, which, although phonemic, are rarely indicated in writing.

For front vowels, an umlaut should be used. Back vowels, however, are left without an umlaut diacritic.

Back vowels (without umlaut)
Notation	a	e	i	o	u
IPA	ɑ	ɛ	ɪ	ɔ	u

Front vowels (with umlaut)
Notation	ä	ë	ï	ö	ü
IPA	æ	e	i	ɞ	ʉ

High tone is marked with an acute accent, and falling tone, which only occurs in long vowels and diphthongs, with a grave accent on the first vowel. Low tone is left unmarked.

"a" stands for any vowel.

Tone
Notation	á	a	àa
IPA	á	à	âː