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This concise chart shows the most common applications of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent English language pronunciations.

See Pronunciation respelling for English for phonetic transcriptions used in different dictionaries.

• AuE = Australian English^[1]
• CaE = Canadian English
• GA = General American
• IrE = Irish English
• NZE = New Zealand English
• RP = Received Pronunciation (England)^[2]
• ScE = Scottish English
• SAE = South African English
• WaE = Welsh English

Note: An image of the chart is also available.

IPA Examples IPA: English Consonants pen, spin, tip but, web [3] two, sting, bet [4] do, odd chair, nature, teach gin, joy, edge cat, kill, skin, queen, unique, thick go, get, beg fool, enough, leaf, off, photo voice, have, of [5] thing, teeth [6] this, breathe, father see, city, pass zoo, rose she, sure, emotion, leash pleasure, beige, seizure Scottish loch[7] ham man, ham no, tin ringer, sing,[8] finger, drink [9] left, bell run, very[10] we, queen yes what[11]   IPA: Marginal Sounds uh-()oh

IPA Examples Australia AuE Canada CaE United States GA Ireland IrE New Zealand NZE England RP Scotland ScE South Africa SAE Wales WaE compro- mise Lexical set IPA: English Vowels [12] TRAP lad, bad, cat[13] PALM father LOT not, wasp THOUGHT law, caught[14], all, halt, talk COMMA about English KIT sit HAPPY city FLEECE see meat FACE date day, pain, whey, rein DRESS bed[15] [16] [16] NURSE burn [16] [16] herd, earth [16] [16] bird START arm, car STRUT run, won, flood FOOT put hood GOOSE soon, through LETTER winner[17] [18] PRICE my, wise, high CHOICE boy, hoist GOAT no, toe, soap tow, soul, roll, cold, folk [18] MOUTH now, trout cute, few, dew NEAR deer, here [19] SQUARE mare, there, bear NORTH sort, warm FORCE tore, boar, port [20] CURE tour pure, Europe Australia AuE Canada CaE United States GA Ireland IrE New Zealand NZE England RP Scotland ScE South Africa SAE Wales WaE compro- mise Lexical set Examples

Notes

See also

• "Vowel wheel" - a subjective schematic of English vowel sounds as pronounced in a General American accent.
• NATO phonetic alphabet - also known as the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet or military alphabet. The NATO phonetic alphabet is often confused with the IPA because of the occurrence of "phonetic" in its name. However, the NATO alphabet is a cipher of the Latin alphabet, while the IPA strives for one-to-one representation of the sounds of all spoken languages.
• Phonetic alphabets (military)
• Pronunciation respelling for English
• SAMPA chart for English
• English phonology

References

External links

• Learning the IPA for English, (Standard American English)
• Online keyboard with MP3 sound files for IPA symbols
• IPA chart with AIFF sound files for IPA symbols
• IPA chart with MP3 sound files for all IPA symbols on the chart (limited version is available to anyone)
• The International Phonetic Alphabet (revised to 2005) Symbols for all languages are shown on this one-page chart.
• lexconvert a GPL command-line program to convert between Unicode IPA and the ASCII notations of various English speech synthesizers
• LONGMAN Dictionary of Contemporary English ''ONLINE'' uses IPA.
• Online IPA editor for English
• Online/Offline IPA editor for English
• IPA transcription systems for English — discussion by John C. Wells of RP transcriptions

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