विकिपिडिया:IPA for Swedish and Norwegian

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Swedish and Norwegian pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. 

See Swedish phonology and Norwegian phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of these languages. Examples in the table are Swedish unless otherwise noted.

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! colspan="4"| Consonants
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! colspan="2"|IPA !! rowspan="2"|Examples !! rowspan="2"|Nearest English equivalent
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! Swed. 30px!! Norw. 30px
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| abort ('abortion')
| about
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| Kina ('China')
| she (Swedish), hue (Norwegian)
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| dag
| do
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|align="center" colspan="2"|In many of the dialects that have an apical rhotic consonant, a recursive Sandhi process of retroflexion occurs wherein clusters of  and dental consonants , , , ,  produce retroflex consonant realizations: , , , , . In dialects with a guttural R, such as Southern Swedish and many Southern and Western Norwegian dialects these are , , , , .
| nord ('north')
| order
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| fot ('foot')
| fold
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| god ('good')
| ago
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| hatt ('hat')
|hoot
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|align="center" |Swedish  is a regionally variable sound, sometimes , , or 
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| Swedish: sjok ('chunk'), Norwegian: sjø ('sea')
| loch etc. (Swedish)shoe (Norwegian)
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| jojo ('yo-yo')
| you
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| kafé ('café')
| coo
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| lake (Norwegian: 'brine', Norwegian and Swedish: 'burbot')
| love
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| Karl (male first name)
| twirl
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| man ('mane')
| mood
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| natt ('night')
| noon
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| barn ('child')
| turner
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| ting ('thing')
| long
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| pappa ('father')
| pool
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|align="center" colspan="2"| is regionally variable, being alveolar in some dialects and uvular in others.
| år ('year')
| A flapped or trilled R.
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| sabel ('sabre')
| soon
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| torsdag ('Thursday')
| marshal (in some dialects)
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| torsdag ('Thursday')
| too
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| parti ('political party')
| cartel 
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| vaktel ('quail')
| vote in Swedish;between v and w in Norwegian
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 VowelsIPA Examples Nearest English equivalent Swed. 30px Norw. 30px mat [ˈmɑːt] "food" bra fast [ˈfast]/[ˈfɑst] "steady, unmoving" fatherBefore , the quality of non-high front vowels is changed in Swedish.  and  lower to ; , and  are lowered to , though the diacritic is not included in the chart above for simplicity. ära [æːra]/"ære" [æːre] "honor" Australian ham  fersk [ˈfæʂːk] "fresh" trap hel [ˈheːl] "whole" Scottish save häl [ˈhɛːl] "heel" there häll/helle [ˈhɛl] "flat rock" hell sil [ˈsiːl] "sieve" leaf sill/sild [ˈsɪl]/[ˈsɪl(d)] "herring" hill mål [ˈmoːl] "goal" Scottish/Canadian stove moll [ˈmɔl] "minor" (music) moll, with round lips dö/dø ['d] "die" No English equivalent; German long ö nött [ˈnœt] "worn" in Swedishnøtt "nut" in Norwegian No English equivalent; German short ö öra [œːra] "ear"  British learn or fur full [ˈfɵl] "full" bird, with tight lipsVowels spelled u, o are compressed vowels. Those spelled ö/ø, y, å, on the other hand, are protruded vowels. bot [ˈbuːt] "penance" boot ful [ˈfʉːl] "ugly, cunning, sly" fuel, Australian food, with tight lips is a central vowel in Oslo, but a front vowel in Stockholm. bott [ˈbʊt] "lived" in Swedish put, with tight lips syl [ˈsyːl] "awl" No English equivalent; French u syll [ˈsʏl] "sleeper" (railroad) in Swedish;fylle "fill" in Norwegian No English equivalent; German short ü unstressed  begå [bəˈgoː] "commit" about

 Stress and tone IPA  Examples  Swedishˈa [ˈandɛn] "the duck" Tone 1 / acute accent: • Single stress with single falling tone in Stockholm: • Low tone  in Oslo and falling tone  in western Norwayˈa.ˈa  "the spirit"  Tone 2 / grave accent: • Double stress with double falling tone in Stockholm: • Falling tone  in Oslo and rising-falling tone in western Norway
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 Notes 

 Bibliography 
 Duden 6: Das Aussprachewörterbuch'' (3d edition, 1990, ISBN 3-411-20916-X).

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