Romanian phonology

In the phonology of the Romanian language, the phoneme inventory consists of seven vowels, two or four semivowels (different views exist), and twenty consonants. In addition, as with all languages, other phonemes can occur occasionally in interjections or recent borrowings.

Vowels

There are seven monophthongs in Romanian:

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open		a

Consonants

Standard Romanian has twenty phonemic consonants, as listed in the table below. Where symbols for consonants occur in pairs, the left represents a voiceless consonant and the right represents a voiced consonant.

Romanian consonants

	Bilabial		Labio- dental		Dental		Post- alveolar		Velar		Glottal
Nasal	m̥	m			n̥	n
Stop	p	b			t	d			k	ɡ
Affricate					t͡s	d͡z	t͡ʃ	d͡ʒ
Fricative			f	v	s	z	ʃ	ʒ			h	ɦ
Trill					r̥	r
Approximant					l̥	l

External links

• Romanian phonology