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2 days ago · The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation of speech sounds in written form.
6 hours ago · English phonology is the system of speech sounds used in spoken English. Like many other languages, English has wide variation in pronunciation, both historically and from dialect to dialect. In general, however, the regional dialects of English share a largely similar (but not identical) phonological system.
4 days ago · English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning. It includes English's norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation.
5 days ago · Covering aspects of phonetics from vowels to diphthongs to fricatives, the book includes multiple practical exercises in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions, helpful diagrams, and pronunciation drills, each chosen from the most essential English art song and operatic repertoire.
4 days ago · More commonly used than the Americanist Phonetic Notation is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). While both systems translate speech sounds into symbols, the IPA only uses Latin symbols. It was first developed in the 19th century and is still used today.
Because I never learnt how to decipher it into anything. some of the symbols are completely foreign to me. Does the average person know how to read it, or is it a niche thing that only certain professions for example require you to learn?
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Most people who are not linguists do not know the IPA. Normal people, when describing how a word is pronounced, will compare it to common words with the same sound or will write it out using their own phonetic transcriptions.
