International Phonetic Alphabet

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Other Symbols

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ʍ	Voiceless labial-velar fricative	ɺ	Alveolar lateral flap
w	Voiced labial-velar approximant	ɧ	Simultaneous ∫and x
ɥ	Voiced labial-palatal approximant	ɕ ʑ	Alveolo-palatal fricatives
ʜ	Voiceless epiglottal fricative		Affricates and double articulations can be represented by two symbols joined by a tie bar if necessary t͡s k͡p
ʢ	Voiced epiglottal fricative	DIACRITICS (If you do not display correctly, click here) SUPRASEGMENTALS (If you do not display correctly, click here) TONES & WORD ACCENTS (If you do not display correctly, click here)
ʡ	Epiglottal plosive

DIACRITICS Diacritics may be placed above a symbol with a descender, e.g.ŋ̊

̥	Voiceless	n̥ d̥	̤	Breathy voiced	b̤ a̤	̪	Dental	t̪ d̪
̬	Voiced	s̬ t̬	̰	Creaky voiced	b̰ a̰	̺	Apical	t̺ d̺
ʰ	Aspirated	tʰ dʰ	̼	Linguolabial	t̼ d̼	̻	Laminal	t̻ d̻
̹	More rounded	ɔ̹	ʷ	Labialized	tʷ dʷ	̃	Nasalized	ẽ
̜	Less rounded	ɔ̜	ʲ	Palatalized	tʲ dʲ	ⁿ	Nasal release	dⁿ
̟	Advanced	u̟	ˠ	Velarized	tˠ dˠ	ˡ	Lateral release	dˡ
̠	Retracted	i̠	ˤ	Pharyngealized	tˤ dˤ	̚	No audible release	d̚
̈	Centralized	ë	̴　Velarized or pharyngealized ɫ
̽	Mid-centralized	e̽	̝ Raised e̝ (ɹ̝ = voiced alveolar fricative)
̩	Syllabic	ɹ̩	̞ Lowered e̞ ( β̞ = voiced bilabial approximant)
̯	Non-syllabic	e̯	̘ Advanced Tongue Root e̘
˞	Rhoticity	ə˞	̙ Retracted Tongue Root e̙

ˈ	Primary stress	ˌfoʊnəˈtɪʃən
ˌ	Secondary stress	ˌfoʊnəˈtɪʃən
ː	Long	eː
ˑ	Half-long	eˑ
̆	Extra-short	ĕ
.	Extra-short	ɹi.ækt
\|	Minor (foot) group
‖	Major (intonation) group
‿	Linking (absence of a break)

Level		Contour
e̋ or ˥	Extra high	ě or	Rising
é or ˦	High	ê or	Falling
ē or ˧	Mid	e᷄ or	High rising
è or ˨	Low	e᷅ or	Low rising
ȅ or ˩	Extra low	e᷈ or	Risingfalling etc.
↓	Downstep	↗	Global rise
↑	Upstep	↘	Global fall