International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

UVic Linguistics is very grateful for resources made available to us by Professor John Esling.

Interactive IPA chart

  • Explore the IPA with our multimedia chart.
  • Click a character to hear it pronounced
  • Audio descriptions and examples
  • Pulmonic and non-pulmonic charts

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Handbook audio files

  • Download audio files from Part 2 of the handbook
  • Hear words spoken as wav files
  • Consonants, conventions, narrative, vowels
  • Includes revisions and notices

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Additional phonetics resources