Help:IPA for Tagalog

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Tagalog language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.

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

IPA	Examples	English approximation
Consonants
ʔ	buang [ˈbuʔaŋ], oo [oʔo]	the catch in uh-oh
b	bagay, Cavite	best
d	daw	dawn
dʒ	diyan; udyók	joy
ɡ	gatas	gold
h	hawak	heaven
j	yupí, mayabang, kahoy	you
k	Bulacan, keso	scan
l	talinò, tapal	lamb
m	madre	maker
n	nasipát, asín	need
ŋ	ngipin, ingat, lasíng	wing
ɲ	anyô, kaniya	canyon
p	piso	span
ɾ^[1]	raw, marami, drayber	like better in American and Australian English
s	sugat	skew
ʃ	siya, kasya	shine
t	tamís	stand
ts	kutsara	cats, sometimes chew
tʃ	tiyák; kutyà, kutsara	chew
w	lawak, Davao	wow
ɰ	sige	a bit like w
x	yakap	loch (Scottish English)
z	husgado^[2]	zebra

Other symbols used in transcription of Tagalog pronunciation
IPA	Explanation
ˈ	Primary stress (placed before the stressed syllable): tayô [taˈjoʔ] 'to stand', táyo [ˈtajo] 'we'

Notes[edit]

^ Can also be a trilled [r] in stressed syllables or an approximant [ɹ] pronounced by some speakers in the urban areas.
^ Sometimes an allophone of /s/ before voiced consonants.
^ /a/ is relaxed to [ɐ] in unstressed positions and also occasionally in stressed positions (Inang Bayan [iˈnɐŋ ˈbɐjɐn]).
^ ^a ^b [e, o] are allophones of /i, u/ in final syllables, but are distinct phonemes in some situations in native words and in English and Spanish loan words and foreign names.
^ ^a ^b [ɪ, ʊ] are allophones of /i, u/ and sometimes /e, o/ (the latter for English and Spanish loanwords and foreign names) in unstressed initial and medial syllables. See Tagalog phonology#Vowels and semivowels.