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The International Phonetic Alphabet
Note | Consonants | Nasals | Vowels
Note
The tables below only show the segments used in this course. For a complete overview of the International Phonetic Alphabet, please consult the following page : http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/fullchart.html
Consonants
| bilabial | labio- dental |
dental | retro- flex |
postalveolar | palatal | velar | uvular | pharyngeal | glottal | ||
| plosive | voiceless | 
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| voiced | |||||||||||
| fricative | voiceless | ||||||||||
| voiced | |||||||||||
Nasals
| bi- labial |
labio- dental |
dental | retroflex | palatal | velar | uvular | |||
| plosive | nasal | 
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Vowels
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front
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central
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back |
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| unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | |
| close |  |
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| half-close | ||||||
| half-open | ||||||
| open | ||||||
