IPA Phonetic symbols for English
1.
Open front unrounded vowel; also for open vowel
between front and back. First element of English
diphthongs 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 vowel
10.
mid central unrounded weak vowel
11.
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 ; English
neutralization of - , happy
16.
lax , English kit
17.
voiced
palatal approximant
(semi-vowel), English y
in 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 th
34.
close back rounded vowel , English goose
, English
neutralization of - , thank you
35.
lax
, English foot
36.
voiced labiodental fricative, English v
37.
open mid-back unrounded vowel, English love
38. voiced labial-velar
approximant
(semivowel),
English w
39. ! voiced alveolar fricative, English z
40.
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, n
Velars:
, , $,
Fricatives: , #, , s, , , , !,
Affricates: , , , tr
Example: nutshell %&
. Note the
gap between and so that ‘t ’ here is not an affricate.
(plosive+fricative)
Clusters: dr, tr
Approximants: , , w
Semivowels: j, w
Voiceless: #, , ", k, s, , t,
Voiced: b, d, d , , , , , , , , m, n, v, z,
Dentals:
,
Nasals:
m, n,
Liquids: r, l