Phonemes
Evan Kirshenbaum created an ASCII transcription of the International Phonetic
Alphabet (IPA)[1], [2].
As well as using ASCII characters for specific IPA phonemes, this transcription
provides a set of 3-letter feature abbreviations allowing a phoneme to be
described as a sequence of features.
This document describes the IPA phonemes using the features used by Kirshenbaum.
Consonants
Pulmonic
|
blb |
lbd |
dnt |
alv |
pla |
rfx |
pal |
vel |
uvl |
phr |
glt |
stp |
p | b |
| |
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t | d |
| |
ʈ | ɖ |
c | ɟ |
k | ɡ |
q | ɢ |
| |
ʔ | |
nas |
| m |
| ɱ |
| |
| n |
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| ɳ |
| ɲ |
| ŋ |
| ɴ |
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trl |
| ʙ |
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| r |
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| ʀ |
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flp |
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| ⱱ |
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| ɾ |
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| ɽ |
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frc |
ɸ | β |
f | v |
θ | ð |
s | z |
ʃ | ʒ |
ʂ | ʐ |
ç | ʝ |
x | ɣ |
χ | ʁ |
ħ | ʕ |
h | ɦ |
lat frc |
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ɬ | ɮ |
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apr |
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| ʋ |
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| ɹ |
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| ɻ |
| j |
| ɰ |
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lat apr |
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| l |
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| ɭ |
| ʎ |
| ʟ |
| |
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Symbols to the left are vls, and to the right are vcd.
Non-Pulmonic
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blb |
lbd |
dnt |
alv |
pla |
rfx |
pal |
vel |
uvl |
phr |
glt |
clk |
ʘ |
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ǀ |
ǃ |
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ǂ |
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lat clk |
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ǁ |
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vcd imp |
ɓ |
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ɗ |
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ʄ |
ɠ |
ʛ |
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ejc |
pʼ |
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tʼ |
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ʈʼ |
cʼ |
kʼ |
qʼ |
ʡʼ |
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ejc frc |
fʼ |
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θʼ |
sʼ |
ʃʼ |
ʂʼ |
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xʼ |
χʼ |
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lat ejc frc |
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ɬʼ |
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Voicing
| Feature |
Kirshenbaum |
Name |
vcd |
vcd |
voiced |
vls |
vls |
voiceless |
Place of Articulation
| Feature |
Kirshenbaum |
Name |
blb |
blb |
bilabial |
lbd |
lbd |
labio-dental |
dnt |
dnt |
dental |
alv |
alv |
alveolar |
pla |
pla |
post-alveolar (palato-alveolar) |
rfx |
rfx |
retroflex |
pal |
pal |
palatal |
vel |
vel |
velar |
uvl |
uvl |
uvular |
phr |
phr |
pharyngeal |
glt |
glt |
glottal |
Manner of Articulation
| Feature |
Kirshenbaum |
Name |
stp |
stp |
plosive (stop) |
nas |
nas |
nasal |
trl |
trl |
trill |
flp |
flp |
tap/flap |
frc |
frc |
fricative |
apr |
apr |
approximant |
lat |
lat |
lateral |
clk |
clk |
click |
ejc |
ejc |
ejective |
imp |
imp |
implosive |
Other Symbols
| Feature |
Kirshenbaum |
Name |
lbv |
lbv |
labial-velar |
Vowels
| Feature |
Kirshenbaum |
Name |
vwl |
vwl |
vowel |
Height
| Feature |
Kirshenbaum |
Name |
hgh |
hgh |
high |
smh |
smh |
semi-high |
umd |
umd |
upper-mid |
mid |
mid |
mid |
lmd |
lmd |
lower-mid |
low |
low |
low |
Backness
| Feature |
Kirshenbaum |
Name |
fnt |
fnt |
front |
cnt |
cnt |
center |
bck |
bck |
back |
Rounding
| Feature |
Kirshenbaum |
Name |
unr |
unr |
unrounded |
rnd |
rnd |
rounded |
Diacritics
| Feature |
Kirshenbaum |
Name |
asp |
asp |
aspirated |
unx |
unx |
unexploded |
syl |
syl |
syllabic |
mrm |
mrm |
murmured |
vzd |
vzd |
velarized |
lzd |
lzd |
labialized |
pzd |
pzd |
palatalized |
rzd |
rzd |
rhoticized |
nzd |
nzd |
nasalized |
fzd |
fzd |
pharyngealized |
Suprasegmentals
| Feature |
Kirshenbaum |
Name |
lng |
lng |
long |
Unused
These are feature abbreviations specified by Evan Kirshenbaum in Appendix A of
his ASCII/IPA transcription, but are not used elsewhere.
| Feature |
Kirshenbaum |
Name |
|
orl |
oral |
|
ctl |
central |
References
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Kirshenbaum, Evan,
[http://www.kirshenbaum.net/IPA/faq.html](Representing IPA phonetics in ASCII) (HTML). 1993.
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Kirshenbaum, Evan,
[http://www.kirshenbaum.net/IPA/ascii-ipa.pdf](Representing IPA phonetics in ASCII) (PDF). 2001.
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International Phonetic Association,
[https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/ipa-chart](The International Phonetic Alphabet and the IPA Chart). 2015. Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA).
