The result is a SAMPA-inspired recasting of the IPA into 7-bit ASCII .
SUMMARY
Notes
The IPA symbols that are ordinary lower-case letters have the same value in X-SAMPA as they do in the IPA.
X-SAMPA uses a following backslash as an escape character to create a new symbol. For example O is a distinct sound from '''O\''', to which it bears no relation.
X-SAMPA diacritics follow the symbols they modify. Except for ~ for Nasalization , '''=''' for Syllabicity , and '''`''' for Retroflexion and Rhotacization , diacritics are joined to the character with the underscore character '''_'''.
The underscore character is also used to encode the IPA tiebar.
The numbers _1 to _6 are reserved diacritics as shorthand for language-specific tone numbers.
