Romalien » pronunciation http://www.romalien.com Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:32:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Pronunciation & Spelling Rules http://www.romalien.com/language-lesson/pronunciation-spelling-rules/ http://www.romalien.com/language-lesson/pronunciation-spelling-rules/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:40:58 +0000 admin http://www.romalien.com/?p=527 Main notable features:

  • h is not silent like in other Romance languages such as Spanish and French.
  • j represents the sound spelled with s in the English words vision, pleasure, and treasure.
  • There are two letters with a comma below (ş and ţ) which represent the sounds ‘sh‘ and ‘ts‘.
  • A final i after a consonant often represents the palatalization of the consonant and is not pronounced like in Italian. This is an example of the slavic influence in Romanian.
  • ă represents the ‘a’ sound in apple.
  • î and â have a sound similar to ‘er’ in English. For example ‘runner‘.
  • x represents either ‘eks‘ or ‘egs‘ (excelent and exemplu).

Further sounds:

Group Pronunciation Examples
ce, ci ch in chest, cheek cerc (circle), cine (who)
che, chi k in kettle, kiss chem (I call), chimie (chemistry)
ge, gi j in jelly, jigsaw ger (frost), gimnast (gymnast)
ghe, ghi g in get, give gheţar (glacier), ghid (guide)
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