International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. It is intended as a notational standard for the phonemic and phonetic representation of all spoken languages.

External links

• Official home page of the IPA
• Peter Ladefoged's Course in Phonetics (with sound files)
• Pronounceable IPA chart
• An introduction to the sounds of languages
• IPA Lab Chart with sound files at University of Victoria. (Works with QuickTime.)
• IPA number chart, at University of Victoria.
• IPA chart source
• IPA Chart in Unicode and XHTML/CSS
• Interactive symbol selector
• WikiTeX supports editing IPA sequences directly in Wiki articles.
• Free Unicode phonetics font (substitute for Times Roman, includes IPA characters)
• Extended versions of the IPA :
• ^canIPA : presents Luciano Canepari's system (500 base symbols, 300 complementary and 200 supplementary) and gives examples of its use for several major languages ; PDF documents excerpts of the books listed in References.
• International Phonetic Alphabet in Unicode
• Flash version of IPA charts, with sound samples
• Another set of IPA sound samples
• IPA-SIL keyboard layout for Mac OS X for Unicode IPA input
• Unicode chart for IPA Extensions
• Unicode-HTML codes for IPA symbols: Tables of symbol names and HTML codes at PennState.