IPA SOUNDS-ReEd

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Corpus, Joshua P.

(BSED-FIL 1)
English Proficiency 1

International Phonetic Alphabet

VOWEL TRIANGLE
FRONT VOWELS CENTRAL VOWELS BACK VOWELS
FRONT VOWELS
IPA SYMBOLS SAMPLE WORDS
/i/ neat, piece, eager, very, paisley
/ ɪ/ pin, been, embank, hymn, busy
/e/ eight, say, place, hey, rain
/ɛ/ ten, bread, said, editor, guess
/æ/ fantasy, meringue, actual, mat, aunte

CENTRAL VOWELS
IPA SYMBOLS SAMPLE WORDS
// upper, southern, strut, mud, blood
/ə/ believe, cinnamon, surround, common, cinema
/ɝ/ earn, bird, fur, nervous, work
/ɚ/ weather, river, work, first, church

BACK VOWELS
IPA SYMBOLS SAMPLE WORDS
/a/ heart, part, argue, octopod, entourage
/u/ pool, blue, flew, rune, shoes
/U/ pully, rook, contour, crew, cruise
/o/ load, bowled, stone, soap, control
/ɔ/ thought, taught, spawned, four, call

CONSONANT SOUNDS
IPA SYMBOLS SAMPLE WORDS
/p/ happen, pod, pin, cap, purpose
/t/ tow, toddler, little, late, train
/k/ character, kid, cup, hiccup, back
/b/ block, babble, robe, bubble, bellwether
/d/ double, odd, day, ladder, loud
/g/ gangster, giggle, get, ghost, goggles
/m/ mop, hammer, lemon, sum, mother
/n/ nice, funny, know, sun, naughty
/ŋ/ thanks, finger, sung, ring, trunk
/r/ yonder, round, robe, rock, render
/l/ lovely, whale, light, feel, valley

FRICATIVES
IPA SYMBOLS SAMPLE WORDS
/f/ cough, fun, graph, tough
/v/ hive, viler, move, heavy, voice
/θ/ wrath, thought, bath, wealth, health
/ð/ soothe, brothers, there, those, others
/s/ collapse, twister, sister cease, cinema
/ʃ/ cash, caution, shirt, cache, crash
/z/ xerox, paisley, dogs, zoo, music
/ʒ/ beige, casual, television, delusion, azure

AFRICATES
IPA SYMBOLS SAMPLE WORDS
/ tʃ / chip, watch, church, much, lunch
/ dʒ / budge, adjust, jeep, genes, judge

GLIDE
IPA SYMBOLS SAMPLE WORDS
/h/ hollow, hygiene, hanger, hollo, behalf
/hw/ when, where, whatever, whenever, nowhere
/j/ or /y/ yet, use, few, beauty, yellow
/w/ walk, wine, wind, below, window

DIPTHONGS
IPA SYMBOLS SAMPLE WORDS
/ɑU/ frown, loud, now, out, cow
/ɑɪ/ fly, lie, smile, five, eyes
/ɔɪ/ spoil, boy, join, oyster, voice

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