In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech ...

Explore the historical context of vowel symbols in British English, which were originally selected to represent an upper-class accent now deemed outdated. The video delves into how these symbols ...

You can hear the actual pronunciation by clicking on the International Phonetic Alphabet lined up in a row. At the top of the page is a list of International Phonetic Alphabets for 'Vowels'.

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To learn how the International Phonetic Alphabet is used to communicate the sounds of words in different languages. The parchments discovered in the Judean Desert's Cave of Letters were written in ...

But spelling is just the representation of a vowel; even if a language has no written alphabet, it still has vowels. So then, what is a vowel?

JIPA is especially concerned with the theory behind the International Phonetic Alphabet and publishes papers, known as Illustrations of the IPA, that use the alphabet for the analysis and description ...