Phonetic Alphabet

A type of Phonetic Notation used for Transcribing the sounds of human speech into writing. This is a linguistic tool, not a replacement alphabet. Among phonetic alphabets are:

--- Americanist Phonetic Notation

--- The International Phonetic Alphabet

-- SAMPA , an ASCII version

-- X-SAMPA , an extension of SAMPA

-- Kirshenbaum , an ASCII version originally developed for usenet newsgroups

--- The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet

--- The phonetic symbols in dictionaries like Webster's Third New International Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary

Relatedly, a writing system that deals with Phoneme s is likely to be called a phonetic alphabet, although the term phonemic alphabet might be used instead.

A new alphabet for languages which do not have phonemic orthographies. It would replace the current one (at least for learning a language). For example:

--- John Malone's UNIFON

--- Sir James Pitman 's ITA , the "initial teaching alphabet"

--- Shavian Alphabet , in honor of George Bernard Shaw .

--- Jan Tschichold 's alphabet

--- William Bullokar 's alphabet

--- Benjamin Franklin had some additional characters to add to the alphabet {Link without Title} .

A list of standard words used to identify letters in a Message transmitted by Voice (including over Radio , Telephone , etc.). The term ''phonetic'', though common, is a misnomer in this context, as the purpose of such alphabets is to identify spelling rather than pronunciation. They are occasionally known as "radio alphabets". See:

--- UK Police Forces' Radio Alphabet

--- NATO Phonetic Alphabet

--- Japanese Phonetic Alphabet

--- Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet

--- RAF Phonetic Alphabet

--- LAPD Phonetic Alphabet

--- Finnish Armed Forces' Radio Alphabet

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