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November 3

IPA for Romanian

Hello! I added the IPA for this person, but I can't figure it out on which syllable the stress is on the family name.

Alexandru Cicâldău – Romanian pronunciation: [alekˈsandru tʃikɨlˈdəu]?

Here is a video, where you can hear his name at 0:06, 0:17 and 0:27. Thanks in advance!8Dodo8 (talk · contribs) 11:33, 3 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@8Dodo8: The stress placement is correct. Note also that the final "u" of the surname is non-syllabic, and is transcribed /w/ in Wikipedia: /tʃikɨlˈdəw/. See Romanian phonology#Diphthongs and triphthongs. Sequences such as /əw/ are sometimes considered diphthongs and sometimes vowel–semivowel sequences, while /e̯a/ and /o̯a/ are unambiguously diphthongs. --Theurgist (talk) 09:50, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Theurgist: Thanks very much for the answer! I'm not really good at IPA, I wrongly assumed that the "u" is transcribed with the same character. So I appreciate pointing that out and giving and explanation.8Dodo8 (talk · contribs) 17:47, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]