Interactive IPA Chart

INTRODUCTION −

The interactive clickable IPA chart is a dynamic and user-friendly tool designed to help users learn and understand the sounds of human speech as represented by IPA symbols. It displays the full set of IPA symbols and allows users to hear the corresponding sounds. The description function (activated by the DESCRIPTION button) allows users to click on a symbol and access detailed information, including the phonetic description, IPA name, IPA number, Unicode name, range, and hex value. Additionally, users can choose from up to four audio clips produced by J. Esling, J. House, P. Ladefoged, and J. Wells to hear the sound of the selected symbol. The transcription function (activated by the TRANSCRIPTION button) enables users to insert symbols directly into a transcription field by clicking on them. The multilingual edition, activated by the LANGUAGE button, allows users to select and view the IPA chart with phonetic terms translated into one of over 30 available languages. The PDF button provides a downloadable PDF of the selected chart for offline use.

CONSONANTS (PULMONIC) −

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Labiodental

Dental

Alveolar

Postalveolar

Retroflex

Palatal

Velar

Uvular

Pharyngeal

Glottal

Plosive

Nasal

Trill

Tap or flap

ⱱ

Fricative

Lateral fricative

Approximant

Lateral approximant

Symbols to the right in a cell are voiced, to the left are voiceless. Shaded areas denote articulations judged impossible.

CONSONANTS (NON-PULMONIC) −

Clicks		Voiced implosives		Ejectives
ʘ	Bilabial	ɓ	Bilabial	ʼ	Ejective
ǀ	Dental	ɗ	Dental/alveolar	pʼ	Bilabial
ǃ	(Post)alveolar	ʄ	Palatal	tʼ	Dental/alveolar
ǂ	Palatoalveolar	ɠ	Velar	kʼ	Velar
ǁ	Alveolar lateral	ʛ	Uvular	sʼ	Alveolar fricative

OTHER SYMBOLS −

ʍ	Voiceless labial-velar fricative	ɕ	ʑ	Alveolo-palatal fricatives
w	Voiced labial-velar approximant		ɺ	Voiced alveolar lateral flap
ɥ	Voiced labial-palatal approximant	ɧ		Simultaneous ʃ and x
ʜ	Voiceless epiglottal fricative	Affricates and double articulations can be represented by two symbols joined by a tie bar if necessary.
ʢ	Voiced epiglottal fricative/approximant
ʡ	Epiglottal plosive	◌͜◌	◌͡◌	Tie bar (below/above)

DIACRITICS −

◌̥	Voiceless	◌̤	Breathy voiced	◌̪	Dental
◌̬	Voiced	◌̰	Creaky voiced	◌̺	Apical
ʰ	Aspirated	◌̼	Linguolabial	◌̻	Laminal
◌̹	More rounded	ʷ	Labialized	◌̃	Nasalized
◌̜	Less rounded	ʲ	Palatalized	ⁿ	Nasal release
◌̟	Advanced	ˠ	Velarized	ˡ	Lateral release
◌̠	Retracted	ˤ	Pharyngealized	◌̚	No audible release
◌̈	Centralized	◌̴	Velarized or pharyngealized
◌̽	Mid-centralized	◌̝	Raised
◌̩	Syllabic	◌̞	Lowered
◌̯	Non-syllabic	◌̘	Advanced tongue root
◌˞	Rhoticity	◌̙	Retracted tongue root

Some diacritics may be placed above a symbol with a descender.

VOWELS −

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i y ɨ ʉ ɯ u ɪ ʏ ʊ e ø ɘ ɵ ɤ o ə ɛ œ ɜ ɞ ʌ ɔ æ ɐ a ɶ ɑ ɒ

Close-mid

Open-mid

Open

Where symbols appear in pairs, the one
to the right represents a rounded vowel.

SUPRASEGMENTALS −

ˈ	Primary stress
ˌ	Secondary stress
ː	Long
ˑ	Half-long
◌̆	Extra-short
\|	Minor (foot) group
‖	Major (intonation) group
.	Syllable break
◌‿◌	Linking (absence of a break)

TONES AND WORD ACCENTS −

Level				Contour
◌̋	or	˥	Extra high	◌̌	or	˩˥	Rising
◌́		˦	High	◌̂		˥˩	Falling
◌̄		˧	Mid	◌᷄		˧˥	High rising
◌̀		˨	Low	◌᷅		˩˧	Low rising
◌̏		˩	Extra low	◌᷈		˧˦˨	Rising-falling
ꜜ	Downstep			↗	Global rise
ꜛ	Upstep			↘	Global fall

Description:
IPA name:
IPA number:

Unicode name:
Unicode range:
Hex value:
TIPA code:
ASCII:


Description:
IPA name:
IPA number:

Unicode name:
Unicode range:
Hex value: