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The Romic Alphabet, sometimes known as the Romic Reform, is a phonetic alphabet proposed by Henry Sweet. It descends from Ellis's Palaeotype alphabet and English Phonotypic Alphabet, and is the direct ancestor of the International Phonetic Alphabet. In Romic every sound had a dedicated symbol, and every symbol represented a single sound.
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It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation of speech sounds in written form. [1] The IPA is used by lexicographers, foreign language students and teachers, linguists, speech–language pathologists, singers, actors, constructed language creators, and translators.
- 1888 to present
- Alphabet, – partially featural
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The most common diacritic marks seen in English publications are the acute (é), grave (è), circumflex (â, î, or ô), tilde (ñ), umlaut and diaeresis (ü or ï—the same symbol is used for two different purposes), and cedilla (ç). [4] Diacritics used for tonal languages may be replaced with tonal numbers or omitted.
The official chart of the IPA, revised in 2020. The International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA) is a system for writing down sounds. It was created by the International Phonetic Association in 1886, so that people could write down sounds of languages in a standard way. [1] Linguists, language teachers, and translators use this system to show the ...
In the late 19th century, Paul Passy and French and British language teachers established the International Phonetic Association in Paris. The history of the IPA began soon after and was created from the Romic alphabet and elements of earlier systems. As a system of phonetic transcription for oral languages, it was designed to assist the ...
