Appendix:West Frisian pronunciation

West Frisian pronunciation is indicated somewhat variably in different sources. Wiktionary's phonemic pronunciations (between / /) should follow the rules detailed here, which are in turn based on the Wikipedia article.

Diphthongs
Falling and centering diphthongs are transcribed with an inverted breve ◌̯ below the second vowel, to distinguish them from two-vowel sequences where each vowel is a separate syllable. The falling diphthongs end in a fully close vowel.
 * au, ou &rarr;.
 * ei &rarr; . Also or  in some regions.
 * ij &rarr;.
 * oi &rarr;.
 * ui &rarr; . Some sources use or some variant here, but the phoneme is in practice identical with the Dutch, so it is transcribed the same.
 * ea &rarr;
 * eau, eo, eu &rarr;
 * ie &rarr;
 * oa &rarr;
 * oe &rarr;
 * ue &rarr;

Rising diphthongs and triphthongs begin with a consonant.
 * ea, je &rarr;.
 * ie, ji &rarr;.
 * jau, jou &rarr;.
 * oa &rarr;.
 * uo &rarr;.
 * uoi &rarr;.

Diphthongs with a long vowel end with a consonant. This consonant is shifted to the next syllable when a vowel follows. Not all sources transcribe all of these with long vowels.
 * aai &rarr;, aaie &rarr;.
 * oai &rarr;, oaie &rarr; . With breaking, oai &rarr; , oaie &rarr;.
 * iuw, eau &rarr;, iuwe, eauwe &rarr; . This is also transcribed with a short diphthong in some sources, but there is no  diphthong in West Frisian outside of these cases.
 * iuw &rarr;, iuwe &rarr;.
 * oei &rarr;, oeie &rarr;.

Consonants
Transcribe w in the onset as. It can be sometimes realised as or  in this environment, depending on the speaker, but this is automatic.

Use both and  where appropriate. While these are usually analysed as allophones based on stress and word position, this does not apply in words like (with unstressed non-initial ) and  (with stressed ).

Do not write syllabic consonants, always precede them with. This applies in particular to the ending -en, but also other cases.

Do not use nasal vowels, but write.

Dialects
Use English names for the dialects, with the template, i.e.  for,  for. Do not include the word "Frisian" in dialects as it's obvious from the language section name that we're talking about West Frisian.