For example, the International Phonetic Alphabet when pronounced 'IPA' in English is written as follows. IPA Chart is a website where you can hear the actual pronunciation of the International ...

Now it can handle nearly any spoken language. 3. IT GREW FROM ABOUT 40 TO ALMOST 200 SYMBOLS. The first version of the IPA had 30 consonants and 13 vowels plus a few diacritics.

(Unfortunately, it uses the same symbol for different sounds such as b, p, and v.) George Bernard Shaw, a famous man of letters, developed a phonetic alphabet. For some reason it didn’t catch on.

By the mid-1950s, NATO recognized the need for a singular, universally-adopted phonetic alphabet, so the organization launched a review of the Able Baker alphabet, led by the U.S. and the U.K.