International Phonetic Alphabet with sound files

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Pulmonic consonants

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Retroflex	Alveolo-palatal	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Plosive	p b		t d			ʈ ɖ		c ɟ	k g	q ɢ		ʔ
Nasal	m	ɱ	n			ɳ		ɲ	ŋ	ɴ
Trill	ʙ		r							ʀ
Tap or Flap		ⱱ	ɾ			ɽ
Fricative	ɸ β	f v	θ ð	s z	ʃ ʒ	ʂ ʐ	ɕ ʑ	ç ʝ	x ɣ	χ ʁ	ħ ʕ	h ɦ
Lateral fricative			ɬ ɮ
Approximant		ʋ	ɹ			ɻ		j	ɰ
Lateral approximant			l			ɭ		ʎ	ʟ
Affricate	p͡ɸ	p̪͡f	t͡θ d͡ð	t͡s d͡z	t͡ʃ d͡ʒ	ʈ͡ʂ ɖ͡ʐ	t͡ɕ d͡ʑ	c͡ç ɟ͡ʝ	k͡x	q͡χ	ʡ͡ħ

Non-pulmonic consonants

Clicks

Implosives

Ejectives

ʘ	Bilabial
ǀ	Dental
ǃ	Alveolar
ǃ˞	Retroflex
ǂ	Palatoalveolar
ǁ	Alveolar lateral

ɓ	Bilabial
ɗ	Alveolar
ᶑ	Retroflex
ʄ	Palatal
ɠ	Velar
ʛ	Uvular

p’	Bilabial
t’	Alveolar
ʈ’	Retroflex
c’	Palatal
k’	Velar
q’	Uvular

Other consonants

ʍ	Voiceless labialized velar fricative
w	Voiced labialized velar approximant
ɥ	Voiced labialized palatal approximant

Vowels

	Front		Central		Back
Close	i • y		ɨ • ʉ		ɯ • u
		ɪ • ʏ		ʊ
Close-mid	e • ø				ɤ • o
			ə
Open-mid	ɛ • œ				ʌ • ɔ
			ɐ
Open	a • ɶ				ɑ • ɒ

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