1. An Animated and Narrated Glossary of Terms used in Linguistics
presents
The IPA Chart

2. IPA? IPA = International Phonetic Association
IPA = International Phonetic Alphabet
Founded in 1886 by French and British phoneticians
IPA chart is a chart of symbols useful for notating all the sounds of the world’s languages.

3. IPA system
The IPA system of notation is particularly useful for a scientific study of the sounds of the world’s languages because it has a one-to-one correspondence between a unit of linguistic sound (phone) and a letter symbol.
As of 2008, there are 107 distinct letters, 52 diacritics, and 4 prosody marks in the IPA proper.

4. IPA chart Table of pulmonic consonants Table of non-pulmonic
Table of vowels
Table of other symbols
Table of suprasegmentals
Table of diacritics

5. Pulmonic consonants uvular trill R Place of articulation
Consonant sounds made by air pushed out from the lungs.
Place of articulation
uvular
trill R
Manner of articulation

6. Non-pulmonic consonants
Consonant sounds made without use of the lungs.

7. Vowels
Tongue position
Lip rounding
Tongue height

8. Suprasegmentals
These are symbols that indicate information of length, stress, intonation and tone.

9. Other symbols
Some symbols are hard to classify, and are included in this small list.

10. Diacritics
Diacritics are marks used to indicate articulatory detail.

11. IPA chart Table of pulmonic consonants Table of non-pulmonic
Table of vowels
Table of other symbols
Table of suprasegmentals
Table of diacritics

12. Wee, Lian-Hee and Winnie H.Y. Cheung (2009)
The End
Wee, Lian-Hee and Winnie H.Y. Cheung (2009)
An animated and narrated glossary of terms used in Linguistics. Hong Kong Baptist University.