THE INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET (revised to 1993)

SECTIONS:  Consonants (pulmonic)   Consonants (non-pulmonic)   Vowels   Other symbols

Suprasegmentals   Tones & word accents   Diacritics

DIACRITICS

Diacritics may be placed above a symbol with a descender, e.g.

Voiceless Breathy voiced Dental Voiced Creaky voiced Apical Aspirated Linguolabial Laminal More rounded Labialized Nasalized Less rounded Palatalized Nasal release Advanced Velarized Lateral release Retracted Pharyngealized No audible release Centralized Velarized or pharyngealized Mid-centralized Raised ( = voiced alveolar fricative) Syllabic Lowered ( = voiced bilabial approximant) Non-syllabic Advanced Tongue Root Rhoticity Retracted Tongue Root

23-may-2000, Kristian Skarbø (kskarboe@online.no)