Afrikaans phonology
System of sounds for the Afrikaans language / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For assistance with IPA transcriptions of Afrikaans for Wikipedia articles, see Help:IPA/Afrikaans.
Afrikaans has a similar phonology to other West Germanic languages, especially Dutch.
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.