User:DangerouslyPersuasiveWriter/sandbox/IPA

Vowel Sounds
IPA #	IPA	ASCII	example
	ʌ	^	cup, luck
	aː	a:	arm, father
	æ	@	cat, black
	ə	..	away, cinema
^[1]	e	e	met, bed
	ʒːʳ	e:(r)	turn, learn
	ɪ	i	hit, sit
	iː	i:	see, heat
^[2]	ɐ	o	hot, rock
^[3]^[4]	ɔː	o:	cal, four
	ʊ	u	put, could
	uː	u:	blue, food
	aɪ	ai	five, eye
	aʊ	au	now, out
	oʊ/əʊ	Ou	go, home
	eəʳ	e..(r)	where, air
	eɪ	ei	say, eight
	ɪəʳ	i..(r)	near, here
	ɔɪ/oɪ	oi	boy, join
	ʊəʳ	u..(r)	pure, tourist

Consonant Sounds
IPA #	IPA	ASCII	example	Technical description
	b	b	bad, lab
	d	d	did, lady
	f	f	find, if
	g	g	give, flag
	h	h	how, hello
	j	j	yes, yellow
	k	k	cat, back
	l	l	leg, little
	m	m	man, lemon
	n	n	no, ten
119	ŋ	N	sing, finger	velar nasal
num	p	p	pet, map
num	r	r	red, try
num	s	s	sun, miss
num	ʃ	S	she, crash
Example	t	t	tea, getting
Example	tʃ	tS	check, church	voiceless palato-alveolar affricate or domed postalveolar affricate
Example	θ	th	think, both	voiceless dental fricative
Example	ð	TH	this, mother	voiced dental fricative
Example	v	v	voice, five	voiced labiodental fricative
Example	w	w	wet, window
Example	z	z	zoo, lazy
135	ʒ	Z	pleasure, vision	voiced palato-alveolar fricative or voiced domed postalveolar fricative
Example	dʒ	dZ	just, large	voiced palato-alveolar affricate or voiced domed postalveolar affricate

Notes[edit]

^ Almost all dictionaries use the e symbol for the vowel in bed. The problem with this convention is that e in the IPA does not stand for the vowel in bed; it stands for a different vowel that is heard, for example, in the German word Seele. The “proper” symbol for the bed vowel is ɛ (do not confuse with ɜ:). The same goes for eə vs. ɛə.
^ In AmE, ɑ: and ɒ are one vowel, so calm and cot have the same vowel. In American transcriptions, hot is written as hɑ:t.
^ About 40% of Americans pronounce ɔ: the same way as ɑ:, so that caught and cot have the same vowel. See cot-caught merger.
^ In American transcriptions, ɔ: is often written as ɒ: (e.g. law = lɒ:), unless it is followed by r, in which case it remains an ɔ:.