IPA Chart

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Consonants

  bilabials labio-dentals dentals alveolars postalveolars retroflexes palatals velars uvulars pharyngeals glottals
plosives/stops
nasals
trills
taps/flaps
affricates
fricatives
lateral fricatives
approximants
lateral approximants

Non pulmonic consonants

clicks stops ejective plosives ejective fricatives
bilabial bilabial bilabial labio-dental
dental dental alveolar alveolar
(post)alveolar palatal palatal postalveolar
palato-alveolar velar velar velar
lateral uvular uvular uvular

Other symbols

voiceless labio-velar fricative voiced labio-velar approximant
voiced labio-palatal approximant voiceless epiglottal fricative
voiced epiglottal fricative epiglottal stop
voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative voiced alveolo-palatal fricative
voiced alveolar lateral flap simultaneous ʃ and x

Vowels

Diacritics

 ̥  ̊ unvoiced  ̤ breathy voiced  ̪ dental
 ̬ voiced  ̰ creaky voiced  ̺ apical
 ʰ aspirated  ̼ linguo-labial  ̻ laminal
 ̹ more rounded  ʷ labialisation  ̃ nasalisation
 ̜ less rounded  ʲ palatalisation  ⁿ nasal release
 ̟ advanced  ˠ velarisation  ˡ lateral release
 ̠ retracted  ˤ pharyngealisation  ̚ unreleased
 ̈ centralised  ̴ velarisation or pharyngealisation
 ̽ mid-centralised  ̝ raised
 ̩ syllabic  ̞ lowered
 ̯ non-syllabic  ̘ advanced tongue root
 ˞ rhoticity  ̙ retracted tongue root