Help:IPA/Georgian

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Georgian language pronunciations 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.

See Georgian phonology for a more thorough discussion of the sounds of Georgian.

Consonants
IPAMkhedruliAsomtavruliNuskhuriRomanizationEnglish approximation
b[1]bbash
ɡ[1]ggate
d[1]ddo
vv, wvan
ʷ[2]quick
zzzoo
ttable
roughly like the unaspirated "k" in sky (ejective)[3]
l[4]lleaf
mmmuch
nnnot
roughly like the unaspirated "p" in spy (ejective)[3]
ʒzhpleasure
r[5]rSpanish río
sssue
roughly like the unaspirated "t" in sty (ejective)[3]
ppan
kcan
ʁghGuttural R, Scottish English loch, but voiced
χʼ[6]Dakota hã.χʼãna (ejective)[3]
ʃshshoe
tʃʰchchoose
tsʰts, ccats
dzdzpads
tsʼtsʼ, cʼNavajo ts'in (ejective)[3]
tʃʼchʼroughly like the unaspirated "ch" in question (ejective)[3]
χkh, xScottish loch; the English exclamation "ugh"
jhedge
hhhead
Marginal consonants
f[7]ffan
Vowels
IPAMkhedruliAsomtavruliNuskhuriRomanizationEnglish approximation
aabra
eebell
iifeel
oooff
uumoon
Suprasegmentals
IPAExplanation
ˈstress mark (placed before the stressed syllable)[8]

Notes

See also