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.

Note: This page uses special characters

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Technical Note: Most IPA symbols are not included in Times New Roman, the default font for Latin scripts in Internet Explorer for Windows. To properly view IPA symbols in Internet Explorer for Windows, you must set your browser font to a typeface that includes the IPA extensions, such as Lucida Sans Unicode (which comes with Windows XP), Gentium (which is freely available), Doulos (SIL) (same source, SIL), or Arial Unicode MS (which comes with Microsoft Office). Alternatively, the style sheet could try using unicode-range specifications to note the gaps where Times does not have glyphs for IPA, Hawaiian ‘okina (glottal stop), etc. and thus hopefully forced the browser to check further down the list of fonts.

Related Topics:
Times New Roman - Internet Explorer - Lucida Sans Unicode - Windows XP - Gentium - Doulos (SIL) - Arial Unicode MS - Microsoft Office - ‘okina

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On this page, we have forced the browser to use such a font, so it should appear correctly, but this hasn't yet been done to all to other pages containing IPA. This also applies to other pages using . Bear this in mind if you see error symbols such as "?" in articles.

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Special symbols should display properly without further configuration with Mozilla Firefox, Konqueror, Opera, Safari and other modern browsers.

Related Topics:
Mozilla Firefox - Konqueror - Opera - Safari

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