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IPA Phonetic symbols for English
1.
Open front unrounded vowel; also for open vowelbetween front and back. First element of Englishdiphthongs 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 vowel10.
mid central unrounded weak vowel11.
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
; Englishneutralization of
-
,
happy
16.
lax
, English
kit 17.
voiced
palatal approximant
(semi-vowel), English yin
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
th34.
close back rounded vowel , English
goose
, Englishneutralization of
-
,
thank you35.
lax
, English
foot 36.
voiced labiodental fricative, English
v37.
open mid-back unrounded vowel, English
love38.
voiced labial-velar
approximant
(semivowel),English
w39.
!
voiced alveolar fricative, English
z40.
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, nVelars:
,
,
$
,
Fricatives:
,
#
,
, s,
,
,
,
!
,
Affricates:
,
,
, tr Example: nutshell
%&
. Note thegap between
and
so that ‘t
’ here is not an affricate.
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