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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Estonian and Finnish pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. See Finnish phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Finnish

IPA	Examples	English approximation
Vowels
ɑ	pouta	Same as but shorter than a in father
ɑː	poutaa	father
æ	pöytä	cat
æː	päivää	mad
e	tere	let
eː	eesti	émigré
i	klid	kid
iː	siika	see
o	oksa	chore
oː	koostaa	chore
ø	pöytä	Similar to RP word or bird, Swedish öl,
øː	säröön	Similar to RP bird, German schön
ɤ	Estonian only: õlu	Similar to (oʊ) in Estonia, code, boat, goal, bone, go
u	surma	wood
uː	suu	coop
y	Finnish kesy Estonian küla	No English equivalent; similar to French tu, German füllen
yː	Finnish ryyppy Estonian rüüpa	No English equivalent; similar to French Lune, German führen

[edit] Finnish diphthongs

ai, au, äi, äy, ei, eu, oi, ou, öi, öy, ui, yi, iu, ie, uo, yö

ae, ai, ao, au, äe, äi, äo, äu, ea, ei, eo, iu, oa, oe, oi, ou, õa, õe, õi, õo, õu, öa, öe, öi, ui, üi.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d In Estonian, the palatalized consonants, /tʲ nʲ sʲ lʲ/ are pronounced like their non-palatalized counterparts, but with constriction of the tongue towards the hard palate, as if pronouncing a simultaneous "y"