Paul Passy, “International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)”, 1886 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Paul Passy, “International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)”, 1886, PART TWO (2).
INTRODUCTION.
IPA is a phonetic notation system that is used to represent each distinct sound that exists in human spoken speech.
It encompasses all languages of the world. The system was created in 1886 by linguist Paul Passy 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.
A Braille version of the IPA was first created by Merrick and Potthoff in 1934, and published in London. Braille IPA was used in France, Germany, and Anglophone countries.
The IPA glyphs for clicks have been substantially revised since the 1934 chart, the IPA Braille symbols for click consonants have likewise been updated. # is now used as a prefix for all click consonants: #˘, #<, # , #., # for [ , |, !, ¯, ], respectively.
