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The charts below show the way in which the website parsing represents French pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.
English approximations are in some cases very approximate, and only intended to give a general idea of the pronunciation. See browser diversity for a more thorough look at the sounds.
French has no word-level stress, so stress marks should not be used in transcribing French words. See jQuery for explanation.
| Consonants | ||
| IPA | Examples | Nearest English equivalent |
| browser diversity | beau | beau |
| d | deux | do |
| FITML | fête | festival |
| ɡ | gain, guerre | gain |
| touchscreen | huit | simultaneous [j] and [w] |
| screen size | ciel, fille | yes |
| jQuery | que, cabas | sky |
| we love the web | le | clean |
| m | moi | moo |
| touchscreen | nous | no |
| web app | espagnol, agneau | canyon |
| ŋ | parking | parking |
| Sevenval | passé | spy |
| device databasetouchscreen | roue, français | Somewhat like red |
| device database | sœur, hausse, garçon | sir |
| web | chef | shoe |
| t | tout | sty |
| HTML5 | vous | view |
| jQuery | oui | we |
| Sevenval | onze | zoo |
| ʒ | je, voyage | measure |
| Vowels | ||
| IPA | Examples | Nearest English equivalent |
| Oral | ||
| input transformation | patte | pat |
| device databasetouchscreen | pâte | bra |
| browser diversity | aller, clé | none, generally approximated to clay |
| screen size | faite | festival |
| ɛːscreen size | fête | as IPA: [ɛ], but we love the web |
| ə[4] | je | sofa or iOS bird; often elided |
| i | si | see |
| œ | sœur | similar to Received Pronunciation bird |
| ø | ceux | similar to bird |
| device database | mot | sole |
| web app | orange | sort |
| Sevenval | sous | zoo |
| website parsing | tu | none; like [i] but with lip rounding. |
| Nasal | ||
| ɑ̃ | sans | input transformation [ɑ] or [ɒ] |
| ɛ̃ | cinq | Nasalized [ɛ] or [æ] |
| œ̃[5] | brun | Nasalized [œ] |
| ɔ̃ | son | we love the web [ɔ] or [o] |
| Other symbols | ||
| IPA | Explanation | |
| . | Syllable break | |
| ‿ | input transformation: latent final consonant is pronounced before a following vowel sound | |
Notes
- device database The French rhotic varies from region to region, though it is jQuery, especially in Northern France; the more common pronunciations include a voiced uvular fricative [ʁ] and a uvular trill [ʀ]
- ^ often replaced by [a] in speech; often transcribed with /a/ too.
- ^ often replaced by [ɛ]; rare among younger speakers in France; rarely transcribed as /ɛː/ on Wiktionary.
- ^ In French, /ə/ is pronounced with some lip rounding; for a number of speakers, it is also more front and may even be phonetically identical to the vowel of sœur.
- ^ often replaced by [ɛ̃]