OAIPA

An open source IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) for the ASCII character set. Version 0.56.

Main goals:

• doesn't look overly cluttered (compared to other ASCII IPA assignments)
• covers most if not all of the IPA
• shouldn't have a need to learn the sounds of arbitrary symbols like @, #, etc.

Pulmonic Consonants	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Plosive	p b			t d		T D	c gj	k g	q G		?
Nasal	m	mg		n		nn	nj	ng	N
Trill	bb			rr					rX
Tap, flap		v"		r		RL
Fricative	ff vv	f v	th th"	s z	sh zh	sz zz	sj zj	x x"	X X"	h- ??	h H
Lateral fric.				hl hl"
Approximate		w"		r"		R"	j	W"
Lateral approx.				l		ll	jj	L

Non-pulmonic consonants

table here

Vowels	Front	Fr. Cen.	Central	Cen. Bk.	Back
Close	i i"		i- i-"		u u"
Half close-mid		y y"		uu
Close-mid	e e"		e- e-"		o o"
Half open-mid			'
Open-mid	oe oe"		ee ee"		oo oo"
Half open	ae		a-
Open	a a"				aa aa"

Other symbols

• hw (voiceless labial-velar fricative)
• w (voiced labial-velar approximant)
• (voiced labial-palatal approximant)
• HH (voiceless epiglottal fricative) [to be changed]
• (voiced epiglottal fricative)
• (epiglottal plosive)
• (alveolo-palatal fricatives)
• (voiced alveolar lateral flap)
• (simultaneous S and X)
• ) (afficate and double articulation marker)

Diacritics

In situations where information is clear and uncluttered, the closing parenthesis is not mandatory.

Description	Example	Description	Example	Description	Example
Voiceless	n(v), d(v)	Breathy voiced	b(,,), a(,V)	Dental	t(d), d(D)
Voiced	s(V), t(V)	Creaky voiced	b(~~), a(~V)	Apical	t(a), d(A)
Aspirated	t(h), d(h)	Linguolabial	t(m), d(M)	Laminal	t(L), d(L)
More rounded	O(R)	Labialised	t(w), d(W)	Nasalised	e~
Less rounded	O(r)	Palatalised	t(j), d(J)	Nasal release	d(n), d(N)
Advanced	u(+)	Velarised	t(y), d(Y)	Lateral release	d(l)
Retracted	e(_)	Pharyngealised	t(?), d(?)	No audible release	d(-)
Centralised	e(..)	Velarised or pharyngealised	l(~)	Not a diagraph	t*H
Mid-centralised	e(x)	Raised	e(T)
Syllabic	n(.)	Lowered	e(t)
Non-syllabic	e(n)	Advanced tongue root	e(<)
Rhoticity	a(s)	Retracted tongue root	e(>)

Suprasegmentals

• , (primary stress)
• ,, (secondary stress)
• : (long)
• ; (half-long)
• = (extra short)
• | (minor foot break)
• || (major intonation break)
• . (syllable break)
• _ (linking without a break)

Tone levels

• '' (top level tone)
• ' (high level tone)
• "-" [without quotes; a single dash] (mid level tone)
• , (low level tone)
• ,, (bottom level tone)
• ^| (upstep) or? |'
• v| (downstep) or? |,

Tone contours

• v (rising contour tone)
• ^ (falling contour tone)
• -' (high rising contour tone)
• '- (low rising contour tone)
• ~ (rising-falling contour tone)
• ">/" or "/>" [without quotes or spaces] (global rise) or? /'
• ">\ or \ >" [without quotes or spaces] (global fall) or? \ ,