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Voiced implosives Bilabial Dental/alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular

Ejectives Examples: Bilabial Dental/alveolar Velar Alveolar fricative

The International Phonetic Alphabet - Audio Illustrations

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Bilabial Dental (Post)alveolar Palatoalveolar Alveolar lateral

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OTHER SYMBOLS
Voiceless labial-velar fricative Voiced labial-velar approximant Voiced labial-palatal approximant Voiceless epiglottal fricative Voiced epiglottal fricative Epiglottal plosive Long Affricates and double articulations can be represented by two symbols joined by a tie bar if necessary. Alveolo-palatal fricatives Alveolar lateral flap Simultaneous and Open
Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel.

SUPRASEGMENTALS
Primary stress Secondary stress

DIACRITICS
Voiceless Voiced Aspirated M ore rounded Less rounded Advanced Retracted Centralized M idcentralized Syllabic Non-syllabic Rhoticity

Half-long Diacritics may be placed above a symbol with a descender, e.g. Extra-short Breathy voiced Creaky voiced Linguolabial Labialized Palatalized Velarized Pharyngealized Velarized or Pharyngealized Raised Lowered Advanced Tongue Root Retracted Tongue Root ( =voiced alveolar fricative) ( = lowered bilabial approximant) Dental Apical Laminal Nasalized Nasal release Lateral release No audible release M inor (foot) group M ajor (intonation) group Syllable break Linking (absence of a break)

TONES AND WORD ACCENTS

LEVEL or Extra high High M id Low Extra low Downstep Upstep CONTOUR or Rising Falling High rising Low rising Risingfalling Global rise Global fall

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