Appendix:Yiddish pronunciation

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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Yiddish pronunciations in Wiktionary entries.

SeeYiddish phonologyat Wikipedia for a more thorough look at the sounds of Yiddish.

Standard YIVO Yiddish

Consonants
IPA	Examples	English approximation
/b/	באַר(bar)	ball
/d/	דאָס(dos)	done
/d͡z/	האַלדז(haldz)	adze
/d͡ʒ/	דזשוכע(dzhukhe)	jungle
/f/	פֿאַר(far)	fuss
/ɡ/	גוט(gut)	guest
/h/	האָר(hor)	hut
/j/	יאָר(yor)	yard
/k/	קאַץ(kats)	cold
/ɫ/	ליד(lid)	ball
/m/	מויז(moyz)	must
/n/	ניין(neyn)	not
[ŋ]^[1]	צונג(tsung)	long
/p/	פּויק(poyk)	puck
/ʁ/	רעדן(redn)	like a FrenchR (avoiced uvular fricative)^[2]
/s/	סידור(sider)	soon
/ʃ/	שיר(shir)	shall
/t/	טאָג(tog)	tall
/t͡s/	צאָן(tson)	cats
/t͡ʃ/	טשאָלנט(tsholnt)	chair
/v/	וואָס(vos)	vanish
/χ/	כאָטש(khotsh)	loch(Scottish)
/ʎ/	מיליאָן(milyon)	million
/z/	זאָגן(zogn)	zoo
/ʒ/	זשאַבע(zhabe)	beige, measure
Stress
/ˈ/	אייזל(eyzl) (/ˈɛɪ̯zl̩/)	as ineasel/ˈiːzl̩/

^[ŋ]is not a separate phoneme but anallophoneof/n/when directly followed by/k/or/ɡ/.
^Therhotic/r/is realized by most speakers as avoiced uvular fricative[ʁ];some use analveolar trill[r]or analveolar flap[ɾ].

Vowel phoneme correspondences across dialects
Standard Yiddish			WY^[1]	CY^[2]	SEY^[3]	NEY^[4]	Germanic Examples	Semitic Examples
Vowel	Translit.	IPA	WY^[1]	CY^[2]	SEY^[3]	NEY^[4]	Germanic Examples	Semitic Examples
אַ	a	a	a	a	ɔ	a	וואַלד(vald)	גנבֿ(ganef)
אָ	o	ɔ	ɔ	ɔ	ɔ	ɔ	אָבער(ober)	סוד(sod)
אָ	o	ɔ	oː	uː	u	ɔ	דאָ(do)	כּשר(kosher)
ו	u	ʊ	ʊ	ɪ	ɨ	ʊ	גוט(gut)	חופּה(khupe)
ו	u	ʊ	uː	iː	i	ʊ	בוך(bukh)	פּורים(purem)
י	i	ɪ	ɪ	ɪ	ɨ	ɪ	זילבער(zilber)	גבור(giber)
י	i	ɪ	iː	iː	i	ɪ	בריוו(briv)	מדינה(medine)
ע	e	ɛ	ɛ	ɛ	ɛ	ɛ	עסן(esn)	אמת(emes)
ע	e	ɛ	eː	ɛɪ̯	ɛɪ̯~i	ɛ	לעבן(lebn)	בגד(beged)
וי	oy	ɔɪ̯	oː~oʊ̯~aʊ̯	ɔɪ̯	ɔɪ̯	eɪ̯	גרויס(groys)	עולם(oylem)
			aː	ɔɪ̯	ɔɪ̯	eɪ̯	בוים(boym)	—
			oʊ̯	oː~oʊ̯	oʊ̯~ɔɪ̯~u	ɔɪ̯	הויז(hoyz)	גוי(goy)
יי	ey	ɛɪ̯	eː	aɪ̯	ɛɪ̯	eɪ̯	פֿריילעך(freylekh)	חן(kheyn)
יי	ey	ɛɪ̯	aː	aɪ̯	ɛɪ̯	eɪ̯	פֿלייש(fleysh)	—
ײַ	ay	aɪ̯	aɪ̯	aː	a	aɪ̯	שנײַדער(shnayder)	חייל(khayel)

Jacobs, Neil G. (2005)Yiddish: A Linguistic Introduction.Cambridge University Press.→ISBN.