Help:IPA/Māori

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Short description: Wikipedia key to pronunciation

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Māori language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{IPA-mi}}, {{IPAc-mi}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

See Māori phonology for detailed discussion of the phonology of Māori.

Consonants
IPA Examples English approximation
f Whakatane fat, what[1]
ɡ Otago get[2]
h Heretaunga hat
k kea sky
l Waihola lucky[2]
m Māori moon
n nā note
ŋ Ngaruawahia sung
p Paraparaumu spy
ɾ Te Reo far (Scottish English), ladder (North American English)
t Tongariro sty
w waka we
Stress
IPA Example Note
ˈ ˈWaitangi[3] Mark placed before the stressed syllable.
ˌ
Vowels
IPA Examples English approximation
Māori father
a Aotearoa cart (non-rhotic)
ɛː tēnā koe yeah
ɛ Te Reo bed
kīanga me
i iwi meet
ɔː tēnā kōrua awkward
ɔ Oamaru off
ʉː Ngāi Tūhoe roughly like too
ʉ Te Urewera boot
Diphthongs
ae roughly like lie
ai
ao roughly like house
au
oi roughly like boy
oe roughly like wet
ou roughly like snow (American English)

Notes

  1. Māori wh is variable, and is often equated to English wh (as pronounced by those without the wine-whine merger). However, contemporary Māori's most common pronunciation is [f]. The voiceless bilabial fricative [ɸ] is a rarer pronunciation, although it is deemed without proof by some to be the sole pre-European contact variant.[citation needed]
  2. 2.0 2.1 Only used separately in the near-extinct southern dialect of Māori. This southern dialect also has a tendency to reduce the last vowel of a word to a schwa. See Māori language#South Island dialects for further details.
  3. Stress falls on the first long vowel or on the first diphthong. Otherwise, it is on the first syllable but never earlier than the fourth-last vowel in a word, with both long vowels and diphthongs counting twice.