What is the international phonetic alphabet?
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What is the international phonetic alphabet?
Phonetics:
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics concerned with the sounds that exist in human language. All languages have a limited number of phonemes, but not all languages make use of the same sounds, or even the same number of sounds.
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View this answerThe international phonetic alphabet (IPA) is a tool created by linguists that allow them to express the sounds in any given language using phonetic...
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