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Phonetics and pronunciation aids
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Haitian Creole language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.  

English approximations are in some cases very loose, and only intended to give a general idea of the pronunciation. See Haitian Creole phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Haitian Creole.

Notes
There are no silent letters in Haitian creole, unless it is being written with the traditional orthography.
All sounds are always spelled the same, except when a vowel carries a grave accent ⟨`⟩ before  ⟨n⟩, which makes it an open vowel instead of a nasal vowel (e.g. ⟨en⟩ for  and ⟨èn⟩ for ; ⟨on⟩ = , but ⟨òn⟩ = ; <an> = , but <àn> = ).
When immediately followed by a vowel in a word, the letters forming the nasal vowels (an, en, on, oun) are to be pronounced separately.

Haitian Creole