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Unlike the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) notational standard which concentrates on accurately and uniquely transcribing the Phoneme s of a language, the UPA is also used to denote the functional categories of a language, as well as their Phonetic quality. For this reason, it is not possible to automatically convert a UPA transcription into an IPA one. The basic UPA characters are based on the Finnish Alphabet where possible, with extensions taken from Cyrillic and Greek Orthographies . Small-capital letters and some novel Diacritic s are also used. GENERAL Unlike the IPA, which is usually transcribed with Upright characters, the UPA is usually transcribed with Italic characters. Although many of its characters are also used in standard Latin , Greek , Cyrillic orthographies or the IPA, and are found in the corresponding Unicode blocks, many are not. These have been encoded in the ''Phonetic Extensions'' and ''Phonetic Extensions Supplement'' blocks. Font support for these extended characters is very rare; Code2000 is one font which does support them. VOWELS A Vowel to the left of a dot is illabial (unrounded); to the right is '''labial''' ( Rounded ).
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