Phoneme | Allophones | Articulation | Examples | Notes |
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/p/ | voiceless bilabial plosive | example | notes | |
palatalized voiceless bilabial plosive | example | notes | ||
/b/ | voiced bilabial plosive | |||
palatalized voiced bilabial plosive | ||||
/m/ | bilabial nasal | |||
palatalized bilabial nasal | ||||
voiceless bilabial nasal | ||||
palatalized voiceless bilabial nasal | ||||
/f/ | voiceless labiodental fricative | |||
palatalized voiceless labiodental fricative | ||||
/v/ | voiced labiodental fricative | |||
palatalized voiced labiodental fricative | ||||
/t̪/ | voiceless dental plosive | |||
palatalized voiceless dental plosive | ||||
voiceless alveolar plosive | ||||
/d̪/ | voiced dental plosive | |||
palatalized voiced dental plosive | ||||
voiced alveolar plosive | ||||
/n̪/ | dental nasal | |||
voiceless dental nasal | ||||
alveolar nasal | ||||
/ | voiceless alveolar nasal | |||
/s̪/ | voiceless dental sibilant fricative | laminal | ||
palatalized voiceless dental sibilant fricative | Lua error in Module:IPA at line 396: IPA input must not contain wikilinks. | laminal | ||
/z̪/ | voiced dental sibilant fricative | laminal | ||
palatalized voiced dental sibilant fricative | laminal | |||
/t͡s̪/ | voiceless dental affricate | laminal? | ||
palatalized voiceless dental affricate | laminal? | |||
/d͡z̪/ | voiced dental affricate | laminal? | ||
/ʂ/ | ? voiceless alveolar fricative | It's not retroflex but alveolar. The same as Russian /ʂ/ (ш) | ||
? palatalized voiceless alveolar fricative | Lua error in Module:IPA at line 396: IPA input must not contain wikilinks. | It's palatalized, not palatal like in English. | ||
/ʐ/ | ? voiced alveolar fricative | It's not retroflex but alveolar. The same as Russian /ʐ/ (ж) | ||
? palatalized voiced alveolar fricative | It's palatalized, not palatal like in English. | |||
/t͡ʂ/ | ?? voiceless alveolar affricate | It's not retroflex but alveolar. | ||
?? palatalized voiceless alveolar affricate | It's palatalized, not palatal like in English. | |||
/d͡ʐ/ | ?? voiced alveolar affricate | It's not retroflex but alveolar. | ||
?? palatalized voiced alveolar affricate | It's palatalized, not palatal like in English. | |||
/l/ | voiced alveolar lateral approximant | |||
palatalized voiced alveolar lateral approximant | ||||
voiceless alveolar lateral approximant | Lua error in Module:IPA at line 396: IPA input must not contain wikilinks. | |||
palatalized voiceless alveolar lateral approximant | ||||
/r/ | voiced alveolar trill | |||
palatalized voiced alveolar trill | ||||
voiceless alveolar alveolar trill | Lua error in Module:IPA at line 396: IPA input must not contain wikilinks. | |||
palatalized voiceless alveolar trill | ||||
/ɕ/ | voiceless alveolo-palatal (prepalatal) fricative | |||
/ʑ/ | voiced alveolo-palatal (prepalatal) fricative | |||
/t͡ɕ/ | voiceless alveolo-palatal (prepalatal) affricate | |||
/d͡ʑ/ | voiced alveolo-palatal (prepalatal) affricate | |||
/ɲ/ | voiced prepalatal nasal | |||
voiceless prepalatal nasal | ||||
/ | voiced prepalatal nasal approximant | |||
/j/ | voiced prepalatal approximant | |||
/c/ | voiceless postpalatal plosive | |||
/ɟ/ | voiced postpalatal plosive | |||
/k/ | voiceless velar plosive | |||
/ɡ/ | voiced velar plosive | |||
/x/ | voiceless velar fricative | |||
palatalized voiceless velar fricative | Lua error in Module:IPA at line 396: IPA input must not contain wikilinks. | |||
voiced velar fricative | ||||
palatalized voiced velar fricative | rare | |||
/w/ | voiced labio-velar approximant | |||
voiceless labio-velar approximant | ||||
palatalized voiced labio-velar approximant | ||||
/w̃/ | nasal labio-velar approximant | Also occurs in Portugese. | ||
voiced velar nasal | ||||
voiceless velar nasal | ||||
palatalized voiced velar nasal | ||||
palatalized voiceless velar nasal |
Phoneme | Allophones | Articulation | Examples | Notes |
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/a/ | low central unrounded vowel | example | /a/ is always central in Polish. Actually, the correct symbol for this should be ӓ invalid IPA characters (ӓ), but there could be problems to display nasalized ӓ̃ invalid IPA characters (ӓ) (dots and tilde above) in some fonts. | |
nasalized low central unrounded vowel | [1] | |||
raised low central vowel | [2] | |||
nasalized raised low central vowel | [1] | |||
/ɛ/ | low-mid front unrounded vowel | |||
nasalized low-mid front unrounded vowel | [1] | |||
raised low-mid front unrounded vowel | [2] | |||
nasalized raised low-mid front unrounded vowel | [1] | |||
/i/ | high front unrounded vowel | |||
nasalized high front unrounded vowel | [1] | |||
/ɔ/ | low-mid back rounded vowel | |||
nasalized low-mid back rounded vowel | [1] | |||
raised low-mid back rounded vowel | [2] | |||
nasalized raised low-mid back rounded vowel | [1] | |||
/u/ | high back rounded vowel | |||
nasalized high back rounded vowel | [1] | |||
raised high back rounded vowel | [2] | |||
nasalized raised high back rounded vowel | [1] | |||
/ɨ̞/ | lowered high near-central unrounded vowel | something between /ɪ/ and /ɨ/ (see vowel diagram below) | ||
nasalized lowered high near-central unrounded vowel | [1] |
Symbol | Articulation | Examples | Notes |
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ʔ | glottal stop | ("aha"), ("nie"), ("w innym") as opposite to ("winnym") |
Not a phoneme, but it can be heard in some words, especially interjections or in the word boundary. |
ˈ | stress mark | ||
ː | geminate or long vowel | not used for plosives! | |
‿ | undertie | used to represent linking on word boundary |