In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English ... is used in the pronunciation guides ...

We begin our discussion of phonetics, the study of speech sounds, by talking about consonants, and we’ll also get an introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet, or IPA. The letters in a ...

And it was far ahead of English 3 ... had developed hangul, a phonetic alphabet that in theory can be used for any language. (Unfortunately, it uses the same symbol for different sounds such ...

For over a century, the International Phonetic Alphabet has tried to ... could handle the sounds in French, English, and German. Later revisions added symbols for pharyngeals (e.g., [ʕ], used ...