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I don't speak Sinhala, but I'm familiar with the IPA, so my answer will focus on learning methods for this. To learn IPA symbols, I've found Wikipedia a very useful resource. … The Wikipedia article on the Sinhalese language lists the IPA symbols necessary to represent all of the words of the language. …

The concept of "capitalization" is not part of the official IPA The official chart showing the International Phonetic Alphabet is downloadable from the IPA website. … IPA letters are not defined in cased pairs. …

IPA is not typically used for transliteration. It is often used for phonemic transcription, and sometimes for phonetic transcription. … There is no IPA police that will arrest you if you transcribe the pronunciaton of light as "[ˈlaɪ∅t]", but I don't see the point of doing this. …

Lax vowels generally cannot end words, but there are exceptions. A more complete rule would be that English has no stressed word-final lax vowels. The unstressed vowel /ə/ can come at the end of words …

Generic IPA charts don't show you where phonemes are; they show you where phones are. …

The 2015 IPA chart is freely available from the Association's website. … Wikipedia states without a source that the ligatures for affricates "are no longer standard IPA". …

IPA is a fairly limited tool to describe this area of pronunciation. Like /a/ for open vowels or /r/ for rhotic consonants, the IPA symbol /c/ can be used in a broad as well as a narrow sense. … So in practice, the IPA letter is underspecified in terms of what phones it represents, meaning might represent different sounds in different languages. …

Many people, including many linguists, sometimes use IPA symbols in non-official ways: it's not a big deal to make a chart with non-official ordering of IPA symbols. … The chart that you've been looking at is not an "English IPA table"; it's just an IPA table. …

The IPA symbol ʊ already implies a quality that is not completely back; a distinction in quality from Spanish <au>, as in raudo, could be marked by transcribing Spanish with [au] or [aw] (and in fact, …

Note also that the use of IPA symbols does not follow strict rules, even in phonetic transcriptions. … That said, the phonetic quality of the vowel in tank may differ substantially from IPA [æ] in many American English accents. …

I'm not sure I entirely understand the question, but there are a lot of reasons why in a phonological analysis of English, r-colored vowels might be treated as something other than a vowel + rhotic c …

It's true that the symbol "/ə/" is used to transcribe a range of sounds that includes sounds close to [ɪ], so there may is overlap between the range of vowel qualities used for "/ə/" and "/ɪ/". In par …

"Diaphonemes" are related to dialects, as you mentioned. Diaphonemes form a system that allows you to describe all of the phonemic contrasts in whatever set of dialects you are concerned with, even if …

/ʝ/ vs. /ɟ/ Phonetically, there is a lot of variability in the realization of the Spanish sound that Wikipedia transcribes as /ʝ/, both between dialects, and in some cases between different utterances …

There are obscure British accents where words spelled with eigh like eight can have a different vowel from words spelled with "long a" like late or words spelled with ay/ai/ey/ei. This is not technica …