The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Elvarri pronunciations. English approximations are loose in some cases and are only intended to give a general idea of the pronunciation. For more information, see Help:IPA.
| Consonants
|
| IPA |
Example |
English
approximation
|
| b |
bo |
body
|
| d |
tades |
d
|
| ð |
vard[1] |
that
|
| dz |
lads
|
| f |
farfa |
fight
|
| ɡ |
gort |
good
|
| ɣ |
arga[1] |
good
but without the tongue touching the soft palate
|
| h |
farfa[1] |
hat
|
| j |
duid, iomalo |
youth
|
| k |
vertuk, kavin |
cat
|
| l |
glei |
law
|
| ɭ |
ollerfa |
roughly like GA Carl
|
| m |
mur |
map
|
| n |
hond |
nice
|
| ŋ |
gnebe, vanko |
swimming, playing
|
| ɳ |
ennart |
GA corn
|
| ɲ |
tanya, nyazet |
canyon
|
| p |
teps |
party
|
| r |
tor |
Spanish perro
|
| s |
sis |
star
|
| ʂ |
hassi |
roughly like shoe
|
| t |
tades |
take
|
| θ |
ennarto[1] |
through
|
| ts |
cats
|
| v |
vanu |
vat
|
| w |
weva |
woo
|
| x |
hassi |
loch
|
|
- ^ a b c d /t, d, k, g, f, z/ become /θ~ts~ʔ, ð~dz, x, ɣ, h, s~ʂ/ after /r/. This process is called hurdaski or hurhassi.