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Prepared by Geoff Morrison, August 2004, revised 2 May 2006

THE INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET (revised to 1993, updated 1996)

consonants (pulmonic)

Bilabial / Labiodental / Dental / Alveolar / Postalveolar / Retroflex / Palatal / Velar / Uvular / Pharyngeal / Glottal
Plosive /  /  /  /  /  /  / 
Nasal /  /  /  /  /  /  / 
Trill /  /  / 
Tap or Flap /  / 
Fricative /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  / 
Lateral
fricative / 
Approximant /  /  /  /  / 
Lateral
approximant /  /  /  / 

Where symbols appear in pairs, the one on the right represents a voiced consonant. Shaded areas denote articulations judged impossible.

consonants (non-pulmonic)

Clicks / Voiced implosives / Ejectives
 / Bilabial /  / Bilabial /  / Examples:
 / Dental /  / Dental/alveolar /  / Bilabial
 / (Post)alveolar /  / Palatal /  / Dental/alveolar
 / Palatoalveolar /  / Velar /  / Velar
 / Alveolar lateral /  / Uvular /  / Alveolar fricative

other symbols

 / Voicless labial-velar fricative /  / Alveolo-palatal fricatives
 / Voicled labial-velar approximant /  / Alveolar lateral flap
 / Voicled labial-palatal approximant /  / Simultaneous  and 
 / Voicless epiglottal fricative / Affricates and double articulations can be represented by two symbols joined by a tie bar if necessary
 / Voicled epiglottal fricative
 / Epiglottal plosive / 

vowels

/ Front / Central / Back
Close /  /  / 
 / 
Close-mid /  /  / 

Open-mid /  /  / 
 / 
Open /  / 

Where symbols appear in pairs the one on the right represents a rounded vowel.

suprasegmentals
 / Primary stress
 / Secondary stress



diacritics Diacritics may be placed above a symbol with a descender, e.g.

 / Voiceless /  / Breathy voice /  / Dental
 / Voiced /  / Creaky voice /  / Apical
 / Aspirated /  / Linguolabial /  / Laminal
 / More rounded /  / Labialised /  / Nasalised
 / Less rounded /  / Palatalised /  / Nasal release
 / Advanced /  / Velarised /  / Lateral release
 / Retracted /  / Pharyngealised /  / No audible release
 / Centralised /  / Velarised or pharyngeralised (alveolar lateral)
 / Mid-centralised /  / Raised (( /  / voiced alveolar fricative)
 / Syllabic /  / Lowered (( /  / voiced bilabial approximant)
 / Non-syllabic /  / Advanced tongue root
 / Rhoticity /  / Retracted tongue root

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 / Long
 / Half-long
 / Extra-short
 / Minor (foot) group
 / Major (intonation) group
 / Syllable break
 / Linking (absence of a break)

tones and word accents

LEVEL / CONTOUR
 / Extra high /  / Rising
 / High /  / Falling
 / Mid / N/A / High rising
 / Low / N/A / Low rising
 / Extra low / N/A N/A / Rising-falling
 / Downstep /  / Global rise
 / Upstep /  / Global fall