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The International Phonetic Alphabet: A Latin-based alphabet designed for transcribing all sounds of all languages.

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If diacritics cause duplication in IPA

So in first learning the IPA I went through the consonants and the vowels. This is confusing because in the consonants chart you see stuff like [d̪] or [ʎ̥˔]. … Same for pharyngealized (ˤ), implosive (IPA uses separate symbols for this), etc. Some pharyngealized ones are found here or here, such as [dˤ] or [ðˤ]. …
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What IPA sound is the danish "l"-ish sound as in "sidde"?

I have an ASCII system for writing sounds mapped to IPA letters, but I can't figure out what the "l" sound is as in Danish "sidde". … What IPA symbol is that? …
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Some questions on pieces missing from the IPA sheet [closed]

[ʱ] I assume is for breathy voice, but I don't see why they don't follow the IPA doc and use diaeresis below like [a̤]. … The phonetic symbols for unicode lists quite a few symbols that aren't found in the IPA doc: [ʳ ʴ ʵ ʶ] (r-coloring or r-offglides). …
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What IPA does in these complex cases

I'm trying to think of examples where the IPA symbols get really complex, and find phonologies with those symbols. … I'm not quite there in understanding all the aspects of IPA, but I wanted to see if these examples (a) can occur, and (b), what the IPA does to handle the diacritic overload. …
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General American English words for IPA vowel sounds

iː seed ɔ off oː law œ hurt øː heard ʊ push uː food ʏ cute yː few For Norwegian: ɑ art ɑː car æ trap æː mad e set (I thought this was "ay" sound) eː save i hill (I thought IPA … The Norwegian one seems very wrong, especially the IPA sounds. …
Lance Pollard's user avatar
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Missing IPA symbols

Sometimes phonologies have symbols that I haven't seen in the IPA, such as ᵘa or k͜xʰ. Wondering how I go about finding out what these mean, and/or why they don't use the IPA symbols. … Wondering if this means the IPA is missing some stuff so they had to use something custom. …
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How to annotate the difference between blended vowels and non-blended vowels

Similar to this question about consonants, I'm wondering how you annotate with IPA (or any other system if IPA doesn't support it) the difference between blending vowels together (morphing between multiple … Wondering how to annotate this in IPA. It seems then there are 3 types: blending discretely shifting glottal stops Wondering how to write all 3. …
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The difference between [h] and [ħ]

I am trying to tell the difference between [h] and [ħ]. I get the technical difference of pharyngeal vs. glottal, but I don't see how it's possible to control those two regions of your anatomy separat …
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What parentheses and tildes mean in IPA / phonology chart

Wondering what that means exactly, if it just means that the sound represented by their alphabet dz is within the range between dʒ and dz in IPA terms. …
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What the palatalized [ʲ] means

So I'm pretty sure I understand labialized [ʷ] and some of the other superscripts, but I don't fully understand palatalized [ʲ]. An example of palatalized is Abkhaz, Selkup, Bulgarian, and Yanesha. Th …
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If any of these stranger human voice sounds have IPA annotations

Wondering if the following sounds have written transcriptions / annotations in IPA or any other system: Snooring sound (breathing in, "hoooonk" is a trill of some sort, then the breathing out "shoo" …
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Do animal sounds have linguistic symbols or classifications?

Wondering if animal sounds have any formal classification or linguistics symbols like the IPA. …
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The anatomy of the L sound

Starting to learn the IPA and having a few questions. One is about the L sound. … I understand their IPA terminology (voiceless avioloar). But it's like: L = approximant, S = sibilant, T = stop. Also L has the word "lateral" in the IPA description. …
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How to annotate "popping" vs. non-popping sounds of sequential consonants

How to write (orthography) words in a distinct way to capture the essence of these pronunciations (I'll try to use IPA but probably will do it wrong so adding another variation). … You can pronounce it these ways: /kom/ /komb/ or even /komb'/ But I'm not even sure the IPA is capturing what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to explicitly pronounce that b. …
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Accurately representing stress

In IPA, stress, is marked with ˈ◌. … It seems you might write that in IPA as peˈlicula. More accurate would be to surround the syllable in some way, such as pe{li}cula. …
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