Antimoon Phonetic Alphabet Chart

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Phonetic alphabets reference The IPA column contains the symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet. as used in phonemic transcriptions in

modern English dictionaries.

The ASCII column shows the corresponding symbol in the Antimoon ASCn Phonetic Alphabet, which can be used to type the pronunciation o~' words on a computer without the use of special fonts. For a full description of the alphabets + audio recordings of the sounds. visit www.antimoon.comlipa

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special symbols IPA ASCII

consonants IPA ASCII b b d d f f 0 g b h h

examples C1!P, l1!ck g,rm, fg,ther cg,t, blg,ck g,way, cin~mg,

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examples !;lad.lah gig"lag,y find. if give, flag how, hello yes. yellow ~at. back leg, !ittk man, lemon no, ten sing, finger get, mag red, tIY ?,un, miss she, crash Iea, gelling check, church think, both this, mother yoice. five ~et, ~indo~

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meaning , is placed before the stressed syllable in a word. For example, the noun contract is pronounced I'kontrcekt/, and the verb to contract is pronounced Ik~n'trcekt/.

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Ika:rl means Ika:rl in American English and Ika:1 in British English. iii means iii or III or something in between. Examples: very I'veri/, ability I~'bdlti/, previous I'pri:vi~s/. Idl/ shows that the consonant III is pronounced as a syllable. This means that

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Examples: little I'htdJ/, uncle I'i\IJkdll. Idnl shows that the consonant Inl is pronounced as a syllable. Examples: written I'ntdn/, listen I'hsdn/.

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