IPA Chart For English Dialects

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language.

These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects. The symbols for the diaphonemes are given in bold, followed by their most common phonetic values.

Abbreviations list

The following abbreviations are used in this article for regional varieties of English:

See Pronunciation respelling for English for phonetic transcriptions used in different dictionaries.

Consonants

Vowels

In the vowels chart, a separate phonetic value is given for each major dialect, alongside the words used to name their corresponding lexical sets. The diaphonemes for the lexical sets given here are based on RP and General American; they are not sufficient to express all of the distinctions found in other dialects, such as Australian English.

See also

* English phonology
* List of dialects of the English language
* Phonetic alphabets
* Pronunciation respelling for English
* SAMPA chart for English
* Help:IPA/English
* Help:IPA/Conventions for English

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