Phonetics is the study of the sounds of speech. The IPA chart and symbols below are for Linguists what the Periodic Table of Elements is for Chemists. They provide an internationally accepted system for writing down all the known sounds of all known human languages. How many of these can you pronounce?


IPA chart provided by the International Phonetic Association

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