IPA chart for English

This is a concise version of the International Phonetic Alphabet for English sounds.

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International Phonetic Alphabet - English

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See International Phonetic Alphabet for English for a more complete version. Note that the parentheses indicate optionality; the IPA code does not actually contain parentheses.

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• {{note|r}} Although the symbol {{IPA|r}} technically represents an alveolar trill, which is absent from most dialects of English, it is nevertheless widely used instead of {{IPA|?}} in phonemic transcriptions.
• {{note|badlad}} See bad-lad split for more discussion of this vowel in Australian English.
• {{note|cotcaught}} See cot-caught merger for more discussion of this vowel in American English.
 
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