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Bi labi al Labiodental Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Retroflex
Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal Glottal
osiv e
sal
l
p or Flap
cative
eral
ative
proximant
teral
proximant
NSONANTS(PULMONIC)
Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a
voiced consonant. Shaded areas denote articulations judged
impossible.
ONSONANTS (NON-PULMONIC)
Clicks Voiced implosives Ejectives
Bilabial
Dental
(Post)alveolar
Palatoalveolar
Alveolar lateral
Bilabial
Dental/alveolar
Palatal
Velar
Uvular
Examples:
Bilabial
Dental/alveolar
Velar
Alveolar fricative
OTHER SYMBOLS
Voiceless labial-velar fricative Alveolo-palatal fricatives
Voiced labial-velar approximant Alveolar lateral flap
Voiced labial-palatal approximant Simultaneous and
Voiceless epiglottal fricativeAffricates and double
articulations
canbe represented by two symbols
joined by a tie bar if necessary.
Voiced epiglottal fricative
Epiglottal plosive
Front Central Back
Close
Close-mid
Open-mid
Open
VOWELS
ACRITICS Diacritics may be placed above a symbol with a
descender, e.g.
Voiceless Breathy voiced Dental
Voiced Creaky voiced Apical
Aspirated Linguolabial Laminal
More rounded Labialized Nasalized
Less rounded Palatalized Nasal release
Advanced Velarized Lateral release
Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to
the right represents a rounded vowel.
SUPRASEGMENTALS
Primary stress
Secondary stress
Long
Half-long
Extra-short
Minor (foot) group
Major (intonation) group
Syllable break
Linking (absence of a break)
TONES AND WORD ACCENTS
LEVEL CONTOUR
or
Extra
highor Rising
High Falling
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20voiced%20bilabial%20plosive')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/voiced_VL_alveolar_plosive.mp3','a%20voiced%20voiceless%20alveolar%20plosive')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/voiced_VL_alveolar_fricative.mp3','a%20voiced%20voiceless%20alveolar%20fricative')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/dentalized_V_alveolar_plosive.mp3','a%20dentalized%20voiced%20alveolar%20plosive')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/dentalized_VL_alveolar_plosive.mp3','a%20dentalized%20voiceless%20alveolar%20plosive')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/breathy-voiced_open_front_unrounded.mp3','a%20breathy%20voiced%20open%20front%20unrounded%20vowel')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/breathy-voiced_bilabial_plosive.mp3','a%20breathy%20voiced%20bilabial%20plosive')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/devoiced_V_alveolar_plosive.mp3','a%20devoiced%20voiced%20alveolar%20plosive')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/devoiced_V_alveolar_nasal.mp3','a%20devoiced%20voiced%20alveolar%20nasal')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/diacritics.mp3','Diacritics%20explained')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/vowels.mp3','Vowels%20explained')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/ts_affricate.mp3','an%20affricated%20ts')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/kp_affricate.mp3','an%20affricated%20kp')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/VL_epiglottal_fricative.mp3','a%20voiceless%20epiglottal%20fricative')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/VL_velar_fricative.mp3','a%20voiceless%20velar%20fricative')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/VL_postalveolar_fricative.mp3','a%20voiceless%20postalveolar%20fricative')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/sim_VL_postalveolar_velar_fricative.mp3','a%20simultaneous%20voiceless%20postalveolar%20and%20velar%20fricative')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/V_alveolar_lateral_flap.mp3','a%20voiced%20alveolar%20lateral%20flap')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/V_labial-velar_approximant.mp3','a%20voiced%20labial-velar%20approximant')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/V_alveolo-palatal_fricative.mp3','a%20voiced%20alveolo-palatal%20fricative')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/VL_alveolo-palatal_fricative.mp3','a%20voiceless%20alveolo-palatal%20fricative')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/VL_labial-velar_fricative.mp3','a%20voiceless%20labial-velar%20fricative')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/other.mp3','Other%20Symbols%20explained')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/VL_alveolar-fricative_ejective.mp3','a%20voiceless%20alveolar%20fricative%20ejective')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/VL_velar_ejective.mp3','a%20voiceless%20velar%20ejective')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/VL_dental_ejective.mp3','a%20voiceless%20dental/alveolar%20ejective')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/VL_bilabial_ejective.mp3','a%20voiceless%20bilabial%20ejective')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/V_uvular_implosive.mp3','a%20voiced%20uvular%20implosive')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/V_velar_implosive.mp3','a%20voiced%20velar%20implosive')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/V_palatal_implosive.mp3','a%20voiced%20palatal%20implosive')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/V_dental_implosive.mp3','a%20voiced%20dental/alveolar%20implosive')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/V_bilabial_implosive.mp3','a%20voiced%20bilabial%20implosive')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/bilabial_click.mp3','a%20bilabial%20click')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/airstream.mp3','Non-pulmonic%20Consonants%20explained')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/V_alveolar_lateral-approximant.mp3','a%20voiced%20alveolar%20lateral%20approximant')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/V_alveolar_approximant.mp3','a%20voiced%20alveolar%20approximant')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/approximants.mp3','Approximants%20explained')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/V_alveolar_lateral-fricative.mp3','a%20voiced%20alveolar%20lateral%20fricative')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/fricatives.mp3','Fricatives%20explained')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/V_alveolar_tap.mp3','a%20voiced%20alveolar%20tap')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/taps.mp3','Taps%20and%20Flaps%20explained')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/V_alveolar_trill.mp3','a%20voiced%20alveolar%20trill')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/trills.mp3','Trills%20explained')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/V_alveolar_nasal.mp3','a%20voiced%20alveolar%20nasal')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/nasals.mp3','Nasals%20explained')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/VL_glottal_plosive.mp3','a%20voice')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/plosives.mp3','Plosives%20explained')
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Retracted Pharyngealized No audible release
Centralized Velarized or Pharyngealized
Mid-
centralized Raised ( =voiced alveolar fricative)
Syllabic Lowered ( = lowered bilabial approximant)
Non-syllabic Advanced Tongue Root
Rhoticity Retracted Tongue Root
Mid High
rising
Low Low rising
Extra
low
Rising-
falling
Downstep Global rise
Upstep Global fall
http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/rising-falling-contour_close-mid_front_unrounded.mp3','a%20rising-falling%20contour%20close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/extra-low-tone_close-mid_front_unrounded.mp3','an%20extra-low%20tone%20close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/low-rising-contour_close-mid_front_unrounded.mp3','a%20low-rising%20contour%20close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/low-tone_close-mid_front_unrounded.mp3','a%20low-tone%20close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/high-rising-contour_close-mid_front_unrounded.mp3','a%20high-rising%20contour%20close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/mid-tone_close-mid_front_unrounded.mp3','a%20mid-tone%20close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/falling-contour_close-mid_front_unrounded.mp3','a%20falling%20contour%20close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/high-tone_close-mid_front_unrounded.mp3','a%20high-tone%20close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/retracted-tongue-root_close-mid_front_unrounded.mp3','a%20retracted%20tongue%20root%20close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel'')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/rhotic_open_front_unrounded.mp3','rhotic%20open%20front%20unrounded%20vowel')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/rhotic_mid_central.mp3','rhotic%20mid%20central%20vowel')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/advanced-tongue-root_close-mid_front_unrounded.mp3','an%20advanced%20tongue%20root%20close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel'')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/non-syllabic_close-mid_front_unrounded.mp3','a%20non-syllabic%20close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel'')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/lowered_V_bilabial_approximant.mp3','a%20lowered%20bilabial%20approximant'')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/lowered_close-mid_front_unrounded.mp3','a%20lowered%20close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel'')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/##.mp3','##')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/raised_V_alveolar_fricative.mp3','a%20raised%20voiced%20alveolar%20fricative')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/raised_close-mid_front_unrounded.mp3','a%20raised%20close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel'')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/mid-centralized_close-mid_front_unrounded.mp3','a%20mid-centralized%20close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel'')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/velarized_V_alveolar_lateral-approximant.mp3','a%20velarized%20or%20pharyngealized%20alveolar%20lateral%20approximant')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/centralized_close-mid_front_unrounded.mp3','a%20centralized%20close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/no-audible-release_V_alveolar_plosive.mp3','a%20voiced%20alveolar%20plosive%20with%20no%20audible%20release')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/pharyngealized_V_alveolar_plosive.mp3','a%20pharyngealized%20voiced%20alveolar%20plosive')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/pharyngealized_VL_alveolar_plosive.mp3','a%20pharyngealized%20voiceless%20alveolar%20plosive')http://playsound%28%27ipasounds/retracted_close-mid_front_unrounded.mp3','a%20retracted%20close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel')
