Charles Darwin, “The Origin of Species”, 1859 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Paul Passy, “International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)”, 1886. Sounds of IPA symbols are at the hyperlink. Paul Passy (1859-1940) was a French linguist who founded the International Phonetic Association in 1886.
IPA is a phonetic notation system that is used to represent each distinct sound that exists in human spoken speech.
It encompasses all languages on Earth. The system was created in 1886 and last updated in 2020.
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is currently 163 symbols. IPA consists of 107 letters, 52 diacritics, and 4 prosodic marks.
Here I presented: Paul Passy, “International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)”, 1886. Paul Passy (1859-1940) was a French linguist who founded the International Phonetic Association in 1886.
SUMMARY.
The “International Phonetic Alphabet” IPA chart is BELOW.
EXAMPLE.
BELOW is the IPA application to the Xhosa language.
Xhosa is a Khoisan language spoken in South Africa (map shown BELOW).
Xhosa was the mother-tongue of NOBEL PEACE PRIZE winners President Nelson Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu; and, today Xhosa has about ten (10) million speakers.
COMMENTS.
The Xhosa language is amongst the Africa continent languages (BELOW shown in GREY) in diagram of World languages. The featured image is of “click consonants”.
The “click consonants” are shown BELOW. They occur no where else in the World; and, the African origin of language is implicit in the click consonant phonetic. 
