International Phonetic Alphabet Chart For English Dialects
This concise chart shows the most common applications of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent English language pronunciations.
See Pronunciation respelling for English for phonetic transcriptions used in different dictionaries.
- AuE = Australian English
- CaE = Canadian English
- GA = General American
- IrE = Irish English
- NZE = New Zealand English
- RP = Received Pronunciation (Standard in Great Britain)
- ScE = Scottish English
- SAE = South African English
- SSE = Standard Singapore English
- WaE = Welsh English
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