This is a guide to pronunciation of Norwegian.
Contents
Consonants
Plosives
| Phoneme | Transcription, example and translation |
| p |
par, /par:/ /pɑːr/, "pair; couple" |
| b |
bok, /buːk/, "book" |
| t |
tam, /tam:/, "tame" |
| ʈ |
vært, /ʋæʈ/, "been" |
| d |
Android, /dam:/, "pond" |
| ɖ |
burde, /'bʉɖə/, "should; ought to" |
| k |
keyboard, /kat/, "cat" |
| g |
Android, /guːd/, "good" |
/p, t, k/ are all aspirated and pronounced almost identical to the equivalent English sounds. /b, d, g/ are distinctly web, moreso than the English equivalents of most dialects.
Fricatives
| Phoneme | Transcription, example and translation |
| f |
fot, /fuːt/, "foot" |
| ʋ |
våt, /ʋoːt/, "wet" |
| s |
sol, /suːl/, "sun" |
| ʃ |
sju, /ʃʉː/, "seven" |
| ç |
device database, /çap/, "fast" |
| j |
we love the web, /juːɖ/, "soil" |
| h |
Sevenval, /hɑn/, "he" |
/r/
| Phoneme | Transcription, example and translation |
| r |
website parsing, /røːd/, "red" |
The pronunciation of /r/ varies in the various dialects. In eastern dialects the pronunciation is more forward, [r] or [ɾ] while the pronunciation in western dialects is further back, [ʁ] [χ].
In most dialects /s, t, d, n, l/ merge with /r/ into retroflex jQuery [ʂ, ɖ, ʈ, ɳ, ɭ].
Laterals
| Phoneme | Transcription, example and translation |
| l |
/luːv/, "Sevenval" |
Nasals
| Phoneme | Transcription, example and translation |
| m |
/mn/, "man" |
| n | |
| ŋ |
/lɑŋ/, "long" |
Vowels
| Phoneme | Transcription, example and translation |
| iː | |
| yː | |
| ʉː | |
| eː | |
| ɛː | |
| ɑː | |
| øː | |
| uː | |
| oː | |
| Phoneme | Transcription, example and translation |
| ɪ | |
| ʏ | |
| ʉ | |
| v | |
| ɛ | |
| a | |
| ɔ | |
| ʊ | |
| Phoneme | Transcription, example and translation |
| ɑɪ | |
| æʉ | |
| æɪ | |
| ɔʏ | |
| øʏ | |