Unicode ranges encoding phonetic notation. Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone = sound/voice) is the study of sounds (voice). ...

• IPA Extensions (0250–02AF)
• Spacing Modifier Letters (02B0–02FF)
• Phonetic Extensions (1D00–1D7F)
• Phonetic Extensions Supplement (1D80–1DBF)
• Modifier Tone Letters (A700–A71F)
• Superscripts and Subscripts (2070–209F)

A "modifier letter" is strictly intended not as independent graphemes but as modifications of the preceding character[1] resulting in a distinct grapheme, notably in the context of the International Phonetic Alphabet. For example, ʰ cannot occur on its own but modifies the preceding symbol. Thus, tʰ is a single IPA symbol, distinct from t. De facto, however, several of these "modifier letters" are also used as full graphemes, e.g. ʿ as transliterating Semitic ayin or Hawaiian okina, or ˚ transliterating Abkhaz ә. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ... Ayin is the sixteenth letter in many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic. ... The glottal stop is used in many Polynesian languages and known under various names as for instance: // Encoding and displaying the Polynesian glottal Old conventions In plain ASCII the glottal is sometimes represented by the apostrophe character (), ASCII value 39 in decimal and 27 in hexadecimal, which in most fonts... In punctuation, the term ring is usually reserved for the ring above diacritic mark Ëš (looks similar to the degree sign °). The ring may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets. ... Cyrillic schwa (Ó˜, Ó™) is a Cyrillic letter. ...

Vowels Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. ... Vowels Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. ... Vowels Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. ... Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Open o (majuscule: Ɔ, miniscule: ɔ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. ... The voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative or laminal postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... African D (Ɖ, ɖ) is a Latin letter representing the voiced retroflex plosive . ... Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Vowels Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. ... In linguistics and phonology, schwa is the tonally-neutral, mid-central unrounded vowel sound, exactly in the middle of the vowel chart. ... Spectrogram of a regular vowel and its rhotacized counterpart. ... Open e (majuscule: Ɛ, minuscule: ɛ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. ... Vowels Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. ... Vowels Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. ... The voiced palatal plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiced velar implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiced uvular plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiced velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Vowels Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. ... The labial-palatal approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The breathy-voiced glottal transition, commonly called a voiced glottal fricative, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages which often behaves like a consonant, but sometimes behaves more like a vowel, or is indeterminate in its behavior. ... The voiceless palatal-velar fricative (also voiceless dorso-palatal velar fricative, voiceless postalveolar and velar fricative, voiceless coarticulated velar and palatoalveolar fricative) is a term used for a range of similar sounds used in most dialects of Swedish to realize the phoneme . ... Vowels Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. ... Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Vowels Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. ... The velarized alveolar lateral approximant, which may actually be uvularized or pharyngealized, also known as dark el, is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The retroflex lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. ... The voiced alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, shaped like a rounded W. was used in Zhuang from 1957 to 1986, when it was replaced with W. It is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet, to represent an unrounded u. Categories: | ... The velar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The labiodental nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The palatal nasal is a type of consonant, used in some spoken languages. ... The retroflex nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The uvular nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Vowels Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. ... Vowels Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet inherited alternate symbols from various traditions, but eventually settled on one for each sound. ... The voiceless bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The alveolar approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. ... The alveolar lateral flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The retroflex approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The retroflex flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The alveolar tap/flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The uvular trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiced uvular fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiceless retroflex fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The esh is a letter: (upper-case), (lower-case). ... The voiced palatal implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiceless retroflex plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Vowels Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. ... The labiodental approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Vowels Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. ... The voiceless labiovelar approximant (traditionally called a voiceless labiovelar fricative) is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. ... Vowels Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. ... The voiced retroflex fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiced alveolo-palatal voiceless or laminal postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Ezh (capital , lowercase ) is a character in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), representing the voiced postalveolar fricative. ... The glottal stop or voiceless glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in many spoken languages. ... The voiced pharyngeal approximant/fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Stretched C () is a letter of the Latin alphabet used to represent a kind of click consonant. ... The bilabial clicks are a family of click consonants found as phonemes only in the Tuu family, the language of Botswana, and the Damin ritual jargon of Australia, although they do occur as allophones of labial-velar consonants in parts of West Africa. ... The bilabial trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiced uvular implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiceless epiglottal fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiced palatal fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The velar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... The epiglottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiced epiglottal approximant/fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiced alveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiced palato-alveolar fricative or domed postalveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiceless alveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiceless palato-alveolar fricative or domed postalveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. ... (turned h with fishhook) is a symbol from extensions to IPA for apical dental rounded syllabic alveolar fricative. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ...

See also

• Unicode Symbols
• Mapping of Unicode characters
• Unicode Latin
• IPA

The following Unicode ranges encode Symbols (as opposed to graphemes): punctuation General Punctuation (2000–206F) Supplemental Punctuation (2E00–2E7F) alphanumeric variants (see also Unicode Latin, Unicode Phonetic Symbols) Superscripts and Subscripts (2070–209F) Letterlike Symbols (2100–214F) Currency Symbols (20A0–20CF) Number Forms (2150–218F) Enclosed Alphanumerics (2460–24FF) arrows... Unicode reserves 1,114,112 (= 220 + 216 or 17 × 216, hexadecimal 110000) code points. ... Unicode as of version 5. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ...

External links

• http://unicode.org/charts/symbols.html
• Spacing Modifier Letters (everything2.com)