History of the International Phonetic Alphabet | Wikipedia audio article
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History of the International Phonetic Alphabet


00:01:12 1 Early alphabets
00:02:01 2 1888 alphabet
00:03:38 3 1900 chart
00:07:28 4 1904 chart
00:08:34 5 1912 chart
00:09:57 6 1921 chart
00:13:31 7 1925 Copenhagen Conference and 1927 revision
00:14:36 8 1928 revisions
00:16:09 9 1932 chart
00:18:06 10 1938 chart
00:18:22 11 1947 chart
00:18:37 12 1949 iPrinciples/i
00:18:52 13 1951 chart
00:19:12 14 1979 chart
00:19:22 15 1989 Kiel Convention
00:19:54 15.1 New principles
00:21:05 16 1993 revision
00:22:31 17 1996 update
00:23:07 18 1999 iHandbook/i
00:26:30 19 21st-century developments
00:29:53 20 Summary
00:31:55 20.1 Values that have been represented by different symbols
00:33:32 20.2 Symbols that have been given different values
00:35:04 21 See also
00:36:39 22 Notes
00:37:45 23 References
00:38:56 24 Bibliography
00:39:04 25 Further reading
00:39:15 26 External links
00:39:25 undefined



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The International Phonetic Alphabet was created soon after the International Phonetic Association was established in the late 19th century. It was intended as an international system of phonetic transcription for oral languages, originally for pedagogical purposes. The Association was established in Paris in 1886 by French and British language teachers led by Paul Passy. The prototype of the alphabet appeared in Phonetic Teachers' Association (1888b). The Association based their alphabet upon the Romic alphabet of Henry Sweet, which in turn was based on the Phonotypic Alphabet of Isaac Pitman and the Palæotype of Alexander John Ellis.The alphabet has undergone a number of revisions during its history, the most significant being the one put forth at the Kiel Convention in 1989. Changes to the alphabet are proposed and discussed in the Association's organ, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, previously known as Le Maître Phonétique and before that as The Phonetic Teacher, and then put to a vote by the Association's Council.
The extensions to the IPA for disordered speech were created in 1990, with its first major revision approved in 2016.