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International Phonetic Alphabet

Short Single Vowels

(IPA)

// pack, hat / / duck, sun

/e/ pet, red // book, good

// pick, sit

/ / pot, lot // schwa apart, pilot

Long Single Vowels

/i:/ week, seat

/a:/ dark, start

/u:/ blue, soon

/ :/ talk, course

/:/ work, hurt

Diphthongs - two vowel sounds

/a/ buy, bite /o/ low, phone

Consonants
Unvoiced

/e/ stay, state // near, here

// boy, voice /e/ hair, stairs

/a/ now, town // pure, fewer

Voiced

Unvoiced

Voiced

/p/ pay, paper /k/ cat, checking // thank, birthday / / sheet washing /l/ laugh, yellow /h/ heard, perhaps

/b/ buy, big /g/ girl, bigger // then, other / / measure Asia /m/ might, farmer /r/ ring, arrange

/t/ top, letter /f/ few, offer /s / sun, missing / / check watching /n/ nothing, funny /j/ yes, beyond

/d/ date, model /v/ very, over /z / zero, user // joke manager // thing, singer /w/ wet, power

Speechmatters May 2005