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English IPA Symbols and Examples

This document provides a table of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols for standard English pronunciation along with examples and phonetic features. It notes that the pronunciations listed apply only to Received Pronunciation English spoken in southeast England, as other dialects like American English have different vowel sounds. The table then lists IPA symbols, example English words, ASCII characters, and phonetic features for each consonant and vowel phoneme.

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English IPA Symbols and Examples

This document provides a table of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols for standard English pronunciation along with examples and phonetic features. It notes that the pronunciations listed apply only to Received Pronunciation English spoken in southeast England, as other dialects like American English have different vowel sounds. The table then lists IPA symbols, example English words, ASCII characters, and phonetic features for each consonant and vowel phoneme.

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  • IPA Symbols for English

A set of IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols for English

It is important to note that the pronunciation given here applies ONLY to ‘Standard English
English’ – roughly the dialect of English spoken by middle-class people in the south-east of
England.

Other dialects of English, including American dialects, have different phones, especially vowels.

IPA SEE Examples ASCII Selected Phonetic Features


[i] heel, me IY {vowel, voiced}
[I] hit IH {vowel, voiced}
[E] met, head EH {vowel, voiced}
[Q] hat AE {vowel, voiced}
[´] about, after, fern AX {vowel, voiced}
[√] up, fun UX {vowel, voiced}
[u] soon UW {vowel, voiced}
[U] put, foot UH {vowel, voiced}
[ç] fork, taut AO {vowel, voiced}
[Å] hot OH {vowel, voiced}
[A] bath, bar AH {vowel, voiced}
[eI] wait, cake EI {vowel, voiced}
[aI] kite, buy AY {vowel, voiced}
[çI] coin, toy OY {vowel, voiced}
[oU] bone, open OU {vowel, voiced}
[aU] cow, out AW {vowel, voiced}
[I´] ear, sheer IA {vowel, voiced}
[E´] air, share EA {vowel, voiced}
[U´] tour UA {vowel, voiced}
[p] pin, spin p {stop, bilabial, voiceless}
[b] boo b {stop, bilabial, voiced}
[t] top, stop t {stop, alveolar, voiceless}
[d] dog d {stop, alveolar, voiced}
[k] can, scan k {stop, velar, voiceless}
[g] gate g {stop, velar, voiced}
[m] mat m {nasal, bilabial, voiced}
[n] not n {nasal, alveolar, voiced}
[N] king NG {nasal, velar, voiced}
[f] fat f {fricative, labiodental, voiceless}
[v] vat v {fricative, labiodental, voiced}
[T] thumb TH {fricative, dental, voiceless}
[D] that DH {fricative, dental, voiced}
[s] sat s {fricative, alveolar, voiceless}
[z] zip z {fricative, alveolar, voiced}
[S] mesh SH {fricative, palatal, voiceless}
[Z] measure ZH {fricative, palatal, voiced}
[h] hot h {fricative, glottal}
[tS] chair CH {affricative, palatal, voiceless}
[dZ] edge, jam JH {affricative, palatal, voiced}
[l] lot l {approximant, voiced}
[r] rot r {approximant, voiced}
[j] yawn y {approximant, voiced}
[w] win w {approximant, voiced}

A set of IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols for English It is important to note that the pronunciation given here
[S] mesh SH {fricative, palatal, voiceless} [Z] measure ZH {fricative, palatal, voiced} [h] hot h {fricative, glottal} [tS] c

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