Appendix:Yiddish pronunciation

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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Yiddish pronunciations in Wiktionary entries.

See Yiddish phonology at Wikipedia for a more thorough look at the sounds of Yiddish.

Standard YIVO Yiddish

Consonants
IPA	Examples	English approximation
/b/	באַר (bar)	ball
/d/	דאָס (dos)	done
/d͡z/	האַלדז (haldz)	adze
/d͡ʒ/	דזשוכע (dzhukhe)	jungle
/f/	פֿאַר (far)	fuss
/ɡ/	גוט (gut)	guest
/h/	האָר (hor)	hut
/j/	יאָר (yor)	yard
/k/	קאַץ (kats)	cold
/ɫ/	ליד (lid)	ball
/m/	מויז (moyz)	must
/n/	ניין (neyn)	not
[ŋ]^[1]	צונג (tsung)	long
/p/	פּויק (poyk)	puck
/ʁ/	רעדן (redn)	like a French R (a voiced uvular fricative)^[2]
/s/	סידור (sider)	soon
/ʃ/	שיר (shir)	shall
/t/	טאָג (tog)	tall
/t͡s/	צאָן (tson)	cats
/t͡ʃ/	טשאָלנט (tsholnt)	chair
/v/	וואָס (vos)	vanish
/χ/	כאָטש (khotsh)	loch (Scottish)
/ʎ/	מיליאָן (milyon)	million
/z/	זאָגן (zogn)	zoo
/ʒ/	זשאַבע (zhabe)	beige, measure
Stress
/ˈ/	אייזל (eyzl) (/ˈɛɪ̯zl̩/)	as in easel /ˈiːzl̩/

^ [ŋ] is not a separate phoneme but an allophone of /n/ when directly followed by /k/ or /ɡ/.
^ The rhotic /r/ is realized by most speakers as a voiced uvular fricative [ʁ]; some use an alveolar trill [r] or an alveolar flap [ɾ].

Vowel phoneme correspondences across dialects
Standard Yiddish			WY^[1]	CY^[2]	SEY^[3]	NEY^[4]	Germanic Examples	Semitic Examples
Vowel	Translit.	IPA	WY^[1]	CY^[2]	SEY^[3]	NEY^[4]	Germanic Examples	Semitic Examples
אַ	a	a	a	a	ɔ	a	וואַלד (vald)	גנבֿ (ganef)
אָ	o	ɔ	ɔ	ɔ	ɔ	ɔ	אָבער (ober)	סוד (sod)
אָ	o	ɔ	oː	uː	u	ɔ	דאָ (do)	כּשר (kosher)
ו	u	ʊ	ʊ	ɪ	ɨ	ʊ	גוט (gut)	חופּה (khupe)
ו	u	ʊ	uː	iː	i	ʊ	בוך (bukh)	פּורים (purem)
י	i	ɪ	ɪ	ɪ	ɨ	ɪ	זילבער (zilber)	גבור (giber)
י	i	ɪ	iː	iː	i	ɪ	בריוו (briv)	מדינה (medine)
ע	e	ɛ	ɛ	ɛ	ɛ	ɛ	עסן (esn)	אמת (emes)
ע	e	ɛ	eː	ɛɪ̯	ɛɪ̯~i	ɛ	לעבן (lebn)	בגד (beged)
וי	oy	ɔɪ̯	oː~oʊ̯~aʊ̯	ɔɪ̯	ɔɪ̯	eɪ̯	גרויס (groys)	עולם (oylem)
			aː	ɔɪ̯	ɔɪ̯	eɪ̯	בוים (boym)	—
			oʊ̯	oː~oʊ̯	oʊ̯~ɔɪ̯~u	ɔɪ̯	הויז (hoyz)	גוי (goy)
יי	ey	ɛɪ̯	eː	aɪ̯	ɛɪ̯	eɪ̯	פֿריילעך (freylekh)	חן (kheyn)
יי	ey	ɛɪ̯	aː	aɪ̯	ɛɪ̯	eɪ̯	פֿלייש (fleysh)	—
ײַ	ay	aɪ̯	aɪ̯	aː	a	aɪ̯	שנײַדער (shnayder)	חייל (khayel)

Jacobs, Neil G. (2005) Yiddish: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press. →ISBN.