International Phonetic Alphabet chart

This page is a chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet. The International Phonetic Alphabet is a system of phonetic symbols. These are created and maintained by the International Phonetic Association. It is not a full list of every single sound that is in every language.

 Official chart 

 Vowels 

 Consonants 

 Pulmonic consonants 

 Non-pulmonic consonants 

 Co-articulated consonants 

 Other consonants 

 Nasal palatal approximant 
 Nasal labial–velar approximant 
 Voiceless nasal glottal approximant 
 Voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop 
 Voiceless bidental fricative 

 Voiceless upper-pharyngeal plosive 
 Voiced upper-pharyngeal plosive 
 Bilabial percussive 
 Bidental percussive 
 Sublaminal lower-alveolar percussive 

 Tones 

+Tone registersExtra-high (top)HighMidLowExtra-low (bottom)DownstepUpstep

+Tone contoursRising (low to high)Falling (high to low)High risingMid risingLow risingHigh fallingMid fallingLow fallingRising–falling (Peaking)Falling–rising (Dipping)

 Auxiliary symbols 
+DiacriticsVoicelessBreathy voicedDentalVoicedCreaky voicedApicalAspiratedLinguolabialLaminalMore roundedLabializedNasalizedLess roundedPalatalizedNasal releaseAdvancedVelarizedLateral releaseRetractedPharyngealizedNo audible releaseCentralizedVelarized or pharyngealizedMid central vowel releaseMid-centralizedRaisedVoiceless dental fricative releaseSyllabicLoweredVoiceless velar fricative releaseNon-syllabicAdvanced tongue rootEjectiveRhoticityRetracted tongue rootAffricate or double articulation

+SuprasegmentalsPrimary stressSecondary stressLongHalf-longExtra-shortMinor (foot) groupMajor (intonation) groupSyllable breakLinking (absence of a break)Global riseGlobal fall

+TranscriptionPhonetic transcriptionPhonemic transcriptionProsodic notationIndistinguishable utteranceSound obscured

 Other websites 

 The International Phonetic Alphabet and the IPA Chart
 Interactive IPA chart

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