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3 unusual facts about Phonetic transcription


Orthographic depth

The second component is related to the diversity at the graphemic level, and to the complexity of determining the graphemic elements of a word (graphemic parsing), i.e., how to align a phonemic transcription to its spelling counterpart.

Phonetic alphabet

Phonetic transcription system: a system for transcribing the precise sounds of human speech into writing

William Bullokar

William Bullokar was a 16th-century printer who devised a 40-letter phonetic alphabet for the English language.


Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation

The Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation (讀音統一會 Pinyin: Dúyīn Tǒngyī Huì) was established in the Republic of China from 1912 to 1913 to select ancillary phonetic symbols for Mandarin, (Zhuyin was the product) and set the standard Guoyu pronunciation of basic Chinese characters.

WZVN-TV

The station first signed on the air on August 21, 1974 as WEVU (a phonetic translation of "WE VieUW"); it was the third television station to sign-on in Fort Myers.


see also

EFEO Chinese transcription

The Chinese transcription of the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) was the most used phonetic transcription of Chinese in the French speaking world until the middle of the 20th century.

French alphabet

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