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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Swahili on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Swahili in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
English: Pronunciation of Swahili "mlima", spoken by a woman from Kenya. Deutsch: Aussprache von Swahili "mlima", gesprochen von einer Frau aus Kenia.
English: Pronunciation of Swahili "mto", spoken by a woman from Kenya. Deutsch: Aussprache von Swahili "mto", gesprochen von einer Frau aus Kenia.
Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands). [6]
The Swahili Ajami script refers to the alphabet derived from the Arabic script that is used for the writing of the Swahili language. [1]Ajami is a name commonly given to alphabets derived from Arabic script for the use of various African languages, from Swahili to Hausa, Fula, and Wolof.
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects.
Since English is commonly spoken as a second language in Kenya, Kenyans tend to follow the Swahili five-vowel system rather than the twenty-vowel system of English. The five-vowel system mainly consists of /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/ and these vowels are never diphthongized like some English vowel sounds can be.
For example, the Swahili j has an implosive allophone, but the distinction is pulmonic affricate [dʒ] vs implosive stop [ʄ]. [6] Similarly, implosive [ɗʒ] has been reported from Roglai , but it has also been analyzed as [ʄ] , [ 7 ] and the implosive affricates reported from Gitxsan turn out to be lenis ejectives that are sometimes ...