IPS Chapter 4

Here are some of the letter-sound correspondences in the orthography of Albanian.

See if you can work out how the words given in transcription would be written in Albanian.

To enter the symbol
    ç
or the symbol
    ë
select the symbols from this sentence, copy them and paste into the relevant box.

Corrections will appear in brackets.

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th voiceless dental fricative c voiceless alveolar affricate
dh voiced dental fricative j voiced palatal approximant
sh voiceless postalveolar fricative zh voiced postalveolar fricative
x voiced alveolar affricate r voiced alveolar tap
xh voiced postalveolar affricate rr voiced alveolar trill
q voiceless palatal plosive ç voiceless postalveolar affricate
gj voiced palatal plosive ë [ə]
ng voiced velar nasal

[mic] (friends)   [ceɾʃoɾ] (June)
[fildʒan] (cup)   [djaθtas] (to the right)
[laɟe] (district)   [matse] (cat)
[korik] (July)   [dʒam] (glass)
[ðjetoɾ] (December)   [ŋaθtəsi] (clumsiness)
[ndzjeɾ] (pull)   [fʃataɾtʃe] (village)