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The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a set of symbols that linguists use to describe the sounds of spoken languages.

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THE INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET (revised to 2020) 2020 IPA CONSONANTS (PULMONIC) Plosive Nasal Trill Tap or Flap Fricative Lateral fricative Approximant Lateral approximant Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal Glottal CONSONANTS (NON-PULMONIC) Clicks Voiced implosives Ejectives OTHER SYMBOLS VOWELS Front Central Back Close Close-mid Open-mid Open DIACRITICS SUPRASEGMENTALS Primary stress Secondary stress Long Half-long Extra-short Minor (foot) group Major (intonation) group Syllable break Linking (absence of a break) TONES AND WORD ACCENTS LEVEL CONTOUR Symbols to the right in a cell are voiced, to the left are voiceless. Shaded areas denote articulations judged impossible. Bilabial Dental/alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Bilabial Dental (Post)alveolar Palatoalveolar Alveolar lateral Examples: Bilabial Dental/alveolar Velar Alveolar fricative Voiceless labial-velar fricative Voiced labial-velar approximant Voiced labial-palatal approximant Voiceless epiglottal fricative Voiced epiglottal fricative Epiglottal plosive Alveolo-palatal fricatives Voiced alveolar lateral flap Simultaneous and Affricates and double articulations can be represented by two symbols joined by a tie bar if necessary. Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. Breathy voiced Creaky voiced Linguolabial Labialized Palatalized Velarized Pharyngealized Velarized or pharyngealized Raised Lowered Advanced Tongue Root Retracted Tongue Root Voiceless Voiced Aspirated More rounded Less rounded Advanced Retracted Centralized Mid-centralized Syllabic Non-syllabic Rhoticity Dental Apical Laminal Nasalized Nasal release Lateral release No audible release ( = voiced alveolar fricative) ( = voiced bilabial approximant) Some diacritics may be placed above a symbol with a descender, e.g. Extra high High Mid Low Extra low Downstep Upstep Rising Falling High rising Low rising Rising- falling Global rise Global fall or or Typefaces: Times New Roman (metatext); unitipa (symbols)

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