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7 unusual facts about International Phonetic Alphabet


Alexander John Ellis

However, two new letters survived, ⟨ʃ⟩ and ⟨ʒ⟩; these were passed on to Sweet's Romic alphabet and from there to the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Empire silhouette

The word "empire" is pronounced with a special quasi-French pronunciation /ɑːmˈpɪər/ by many in the fashion world.

French alphabet

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Niedrzwica

Niedrzwica (IPA ɲɛdʒˈvitsa) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gołdap, within Gołdap County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.

Piaroa people

The Piaroa, a term of unknown origin, are also known as De'arua (masters of the forest), Wothuha (knowledgeable people), also spelled Huǫttųją (NTM spelling) and Wötʰïhä (IPA spelling), and De'atʰïhä (people of the forest).

Stød

Because Dania, the phonetic alphabet based on the International Phonetic Alphabet designed specifically for Danish, uses the IPA character for a glottal stop to transcribe stød, the feature is frequently mistaken to be a consonant rather than a prosodic feature.

Theodor Siebs

His Deutsche Bühnenaussprache is still relevant, though, for practical purposes it has largely been supplanted by other works that employ the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), which Siebs' work did not.


Middle Chinese

This notation is still widely used, but its symbols, based on Johan August Lundell's Swedish Dialect Alphabet, differ from the familiar International Phonetic Alphabet.


see also

Alveolar fricative

Voiced alveolar fricative, written as z in English and the International Phonetic Alphabet

Voiceless alveolar fricative, written as s in English and the International Phonetic Alphabet