ē for IPA /i/) and avoid non-alphabetic symbols (e.g. These systems are conceptually equivalent to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) commonly used in bilingual dictionaries and scholarly writings but tend to use symbols based on English rather than Romance-language spelling conventions (e.g. There are two basic types of pronunciation respelling: the spelling does not reliably indicate pronunciation). For the distinction between, / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.Ī pronunciation respelling for English is a notation used to convey the pronunciation of words in the English language, which do not have a phonemic orthography (i.e. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
