IPA Phonetic symbols for English

1.

Open front unrounded vowel; also for open vowel

between front and back. First element of English

diphthongs in price, high, mouth, how

2.

Open back unrounded vowel; English father

3.

raised open front unrounded vowel; English trap, bad

4.

voiced bilabial plosive, English b

5.

voiced alveolar (sometimes: dental)

plosive

, English d

6.

voiced

palato-alveolar

affricate, English j

7.

dr voiced

post-alveolar affricate

, English dr

8.

voiced dental

fricative

, in English father

9.

close-mid front unrounded vowel

10.

mid central unrounded weak vowel

11.

mid central unrounded vowel, RP nurse

12. f voiceless labiodental fricative, English f

13.

voiced velar plosive, English ‘hard’ g

14.

voiceless

glottal fricative

, English h

15.

close front unrounded vowel; English fleece ; English

neutralization of - , happy

16.

lax , English kit

17.

voiced

palatal approximant

(semi-vowel), English y

in yet

18. k voiceless

velar

plosive, English k

19.

voiced alveolar lateral, English l

20. m voiced

bilabial

nasal, English m

21. n voiced

alveolar

(sometimes:dental) nasal, English n

22.

voiced velar nasal, English ng

23.

first element of AmE diphthong in goat

24.

open-mid back rounded vowel; English north, thought

25.

open back rounded vowel; RP lot

26. p voiceless bilabial plosive, English p

27.

voiced

post-alveolar

approximant, English red

28.

voiceless alveolar fricative, English s

29.

voiceless

palato-alveolar fricative

, English sh

30.

voiceless alveolar (sometimes:dental) plosive, English t

31.

voiceless

palato-alveolar

affricate, English ch

32.

voiceless

post-alveolar affricate

, English tr

33.

voiceless dental fricative, English th

34.

close back rounded vowel , English goose

, English

neutralization of - , thank you

35.

lax

, English foot

36.

voiced labiodental fricative, English v

37.

open mid-back unrounded vowel, English love

38. voiced labial-velar

approximant

(semivowel),

English w

39. ! voiced alveolar fricative, English z

40.

voiced

palato-alveolar fricative

, in English measure

(Note: The 20 vowel phonemes are:

, ,

,

,

,

, ,…

(The 24 consonant phonemes are: (", , , d, k, ) plosives,
( , ) affricates, (j, w) semi-vowels, ( , ) dentals,
(m, n, )nasals, (r, l) liquids, (#, , s, !, , , ) fricatives. )

Plosives: ", , , d, k,
Alveolars: t, d, z, s, l, n

Velars:

, , $,

Fricatives: , #, , s, , , , !,
Affricates: , , , tr

Example: nutshell %&

. Note the

gap between and so that ‘t ’ here is not an affricate.

(plosive+fricative)

Clusters: dr, tr

Approximants: , , w

Semivowels: j, w

Voiceless: #, , ", k, s, , t,
Voiced: b, d, d , , , , , , , , m, n, v, z,
Dentals:

,

Nasals:

m, n,

Liquids: r, l