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Vowel Sounds
IPA # IPA ASCII example Technical Description
ʌ ^ cup, luck
a: arm, father
æ @ cat, black
ə .. away, cinema
[1] e e met, bed
ʒːʳ e:(r) turn, learn
ɪ i hit, sit
i: see, heat
[2] ɐ o hot, rock
[3][4] ɔː o: cal, four
ʊ u put, could
u: blue, food
ai five, eye
au now, out
oʊ/əʊ Ou go, home
eəʳ e..(r) where, air
ei say, eight
ɪəʳ i..(r) near, here
ɔɪ/oɪ oi boy, join
ʊəʳ u..(r) pure, tourist
Consonant Sounds
IPA # IPA ASCII example Technical description
b b bad, lab
d d did, lady
f f find, if
g g give, flag
h h how, hello
j j yes, yellow
k k cat, back
l l leg, little
m m man, lemon
n n no, ten
119 ŋ N sing, finger velar nasal
num p p pet, map
num r r red, try
num s s sun, miss
num ʃ S she, crash
Example t t tea, getting
Example tS check, church voiceless palato-alveolar affricate or domed postalveolar affricate
Example θ th think, both voiceless dental fricative
Example ð TH this, mother voiced dental fricative
Example v v voice, five voiced labiodental fricative
Example w w wet, window
Example z z zoo, lazy
135 ʒ Z pleasure, vision voiced palato-alveolar fricative or voiced domed postalveolar fricative
Example dZ just, large voiced palato-alveolar affricate or voiced domed postalveolar affricate


Notes

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  1. ^ Almost all dictionaries use the e symbol for the vowel in bed. The problem with this convention is that e in the IPA does not stand for the vowel in bed; it stands for a different vowel that is heard, for example, in the German word Seele. The “proper” symbol for the bed vowel is ɛ (do not confuse with ɜ:). The same goes for eə vs. ɛə.
  2. ^ In AmE, ɑ: and ɒ are one vowel, so calm and cot have the same vowel. In American transcriptions, hot is written as hɑ:t.
  3. ^ About 40% of Americans pronounce ɔ: the same way as ɑ:, so that caught and cot have the same vowel. See cot-caught merger.
  4. ^ In American transcriptions, ɔ: is often written as ɒ: (e.g. law = lɒ:), unless it is followed by r, in which case it remains an ɔ:.