THE INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET (revised to 1993)

SECTIONS:  Consonants (pulmonic)   Consonants (non-pulmonic)   Vowels   Other symbols

Suprasegmentals   Tones & word accents   Diacritics

CONSONANTS (PULMONIC)

Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal Glottal Plosive       Nasal     Trill           Tap or Flap               Fricative Lateral fricative                 Approximant         Lateral approximant

Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a voiced consonant. Shaded areas denote articulations judged impossible.

23-may-2000, Kristian Skarbø (kskarboe@online.no)