IPA Chart with Sounds

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VOWELS

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	Front			Near-front			Central			Near-back			Back
Close	i	•	y				ɨ	•	ʉ				ɯ	•	u
Near-Close				ɪ	ʏ							ʊ
Close-mid			e	•	ø			ɘ	•	ɵ			ɤ	•	o
Mid									ə
Open-mid					ɛ	•	œ		ɜ	•	ɞ		ʌ	•	ɔ
Near-Open						æ				ɐ
Open							a	•		ä			ɑ	•	ɒ

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

PULMONIC CONSONANTS

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	BILABIAL		LABIODENTAL		DENTAL		ALVEOLAR		POST ALVEOLAR		RETROFLEX		PALATAL		VELAR		UVULAR		PHARYNGEAL		GLOTTAL
PLOSIVE	p	b					t	d			ʈ	ɖ	c	ɟ	k	g	q	ɢ			ʔ
NASAL		m		ɱ				n				ɳ		ɲ		ŋ		ɴ
TRILL		ʙ						r										ʀ
TAP OR FLAP								ɾ				ɽ
FRICATIVE	ɸ	β	f	v	θ	ð	s	z	ʃ	ʒ	ʂ	ʐ	ç	ʝ	x	ɣ	χ	ʁ	ħ	ʕ	h	ɦ
LATERAL FRICATIVE							ɬ	ɮ
APPROXIMANT				ʋ				ɹ				ɻ		j		ɰ
LATERAL APPROXIMANT								l				ɭ		ʎ		ʟ

Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a voiced consonant.
Areas shaded grey indicate articulations judged impossible.

NON-PULMONIC CONSONANTS

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CLICKS	VOICED IMPLOSIVES	EJECTIVES
ʘ Bilabial	ɓ Bilabial	pʼ Bilabial
ǀ Dental	ɗ Dental/alveolar	tʼ Dental/alveolar
ǃ (Post)alveoalar	ʄ Palatal	kʼ Velar
ǂ Palatoalveolar	ɠ Velar	sʼ Alveolar fricative
ǁ Alveolar lateral	ʛ Uvular	ʼetc…

OTHER SYMBOLS

ʍ Voiceless labial-velar fricative

w Voiced labial-velar approximant

ɥ Voiced labial-palatal approximant

ʜ Voiceless epiglottal fricative

ʢ Voiced epiglottal fricative

ʡ Epiglottal plosive

ɕ Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative

ʑ Voiced alveolo-palatal fricative

ɺ Alveolar lateral flap

ɧ Simultaneous ʃ and x

AFFRICATES

t͡s Voiceless alveolar affricate

t͡ʃ Voiceless palato-alveolar affricate

t͡ɕ Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate

ʈ͡ʂ Voiceless retroflex affricate

d͡z Voiced alveolar affricate

d͡ʒ Voiced post-alveolar affricate

d͡ʑ Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate

ɖ͡ʐ Voiceless retroflex affricate

This IPA Chart was created by InternationalPhoneticAlphabet.org
The Voice Over was done by Dan Lenard
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