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From: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo)
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Subject: Re: question about names for symbols
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Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 17:14:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 20 17:14:44 1985
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In article <2041@iddic.UUCP> rick@iddic.UUCP (Rick Coates) writes:
>And on a related topic, does anyone know of names for the IPA (International
>Phonetic Alphabet) symbols?   I have looked in reference materials for the
>IPA and in the Encyclopaedia Britannica to no avail.

Here are some. Properly speaking the names belong to the sounds, not to the
symbols.  Many vowel sounds not represented by simple letters 'i', 'e', 'a',
'o', and 'u' are called by their sound. This cannot be done with consonants
since a vowel is needed to make a pronounceable syllable. Many consonants
are named by the Greek letter used to represent them.

	name		sound

	ash		'a' in 'cat'
	shwa		'u' in 'cut'
	ezh		'z' in 'azure'
	esh		'sh' in 'she'
	beta		bilabial voiced fricative
	phi		bilabial voiceless fricative
	delta		'th' in 'the'
	theta		'th' in 'think'
	gamma		velar voiced fricative
	chi		velar voiceless fricative
-- 


Rob Bernardo, San Ramon, California
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