Phonetic alphabet
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A phonetic alphabet is any of three things:
- A type of phonetic notation used for transcribing the sounds of human speech into writing. This is a linguistic tool, not a replacement alphabet. Among phonetic alphabets are:
- Americanist phonetic notation
- The International Phonetic Alphabet
- SAMPA, an ASCII version
- X-SAMPA, an extension of SAMPA
- Kirshenbaum, an ASCII version originally developed for usenet newsgroups
- The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet
- The phonetic symbols in dictionaries like Webster's Third New International Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary
Relatedly, a writing system that deals with phonemes is likely to be called a phonetic alphabet, although the term phonemic alphabet might be used instead.
- A new alphabet for languages which do not have phonemic orthographies. It would replace the current one (at least for learning a language). For example:
- John Malone's UNIFON
- Sir James Pitman's ITA, the "initial teaching alphabet"
- Shavian alphabet, in honor of George Bernard Shaw.
- Jan Tschichold's alphabet
- William Bullokar's alphabet
- Benjamin Franklin had some additional characters to add to the alphabet [1].
- A list of standard words used to identify letters in a message transmitted by voice (including over radio, telephone, etc.). The term phonetic, though common, is a misnomer in this context, as the purpose of such alphabets is to identify spelling rather than pronunciation. They are occasionally known as "radio alphabets". See:
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