Appendix:Yiddish pronunciation

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 YiddishEdit

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	ɛɪ̯	גרויס‎ (groys)	עולם‎ (oylem)
			aː	ɔɪ̯	ɔɪ̯	ɛɪ̯	בוים‎ (boym)	—
			oʊ̯	oː~oʊ̯	oʊ̯~ɔɪ̯~u	ɔɪ̯	הויז‎ (hoyz)	גוי‎ (goy)
יי	ey	ɛɪ̯	eː	aɪ̯	ɛɪ̯	ɛɪ̯	פֿריילעך‎ (freylekh)	חן‎ (kheyn)
יי	ey	ɛɪ̯	aː	aɪ̯	ɛɪ̯	ɛɪ̯	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.