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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of English on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of English in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
- Talk
The IPA is the international standard for phonetic...
- Manual of Style/Pronunciation
Pronunciation in Wikipedia should be transcribed using the...
- IPA Introduction
While most IPA consonants are intuitive for English...
- International Phonetic Alphabet
The official chart of the IPA, revised in 2020. The...
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The following tables list the IPA symbols used for English words and pronunciations. Please note that several of these symbols are used in ways that are specific to Wikipedia and differ from those used by dictionaries.
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. English phonology is the system of speech sounds used in spoken English.
The Cambridge Dictionary uses the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to show pronunciation in writing. You can recognize these pronunciations by the slashes before and after, for example, /pen/. You can also click on the icons to listen to the pronunciation in UK or US English.
Guide to Pronunciation. Pronunciation is not an intrinsic component of the dic-tionary. For some languages, such as Spanish, Swahili, and Finnish, the correspondence between orthography and pronunciation is so close that a dictionary need only spell a word correctly to indicate its pronunciation.
The OALD has used IPA-based phonemic transcription to indicate pronunciation since its first edition (1948). Early editions used transcriptions similar to those found in contemporary editions of Daniel Jones’s . English Pronouncing Dictionary (1917), while the 3. rd. edition (1974)
