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SAMPA/English

A concise version of SAMPA for English sounds

See a more complete SAMPA chart of sounds found in most of European languages.

SAMPA: English Consonants
SAMPA	Examples
p	English pen
b	English but
t	English two
d	English do
tS	English chair, picture
dZ	English gin, joy
k	English cat, kill, queen
g	English go, get
f	English fool, enough
v	English voice
T	English thing
D	English this
s	English see, pass, city
z	English zoo, roses
S	English she, sure, emotion
Z	English pleasure
h	English ham
m	English man
n	English no
J	US English canyon
N	English singer, ring
l	English left
5	English milk (dark l)
r	English run, very
4	US English better
w	English we
j	English yes

SAMPA: English Vowels
SAMPA		Examples
RP	US
a:	A	father
i:	i:	see
I	I	city
E	E	bed
3:	3`	bird
{	{	bad, cat
A:	Ar	arm
V	V	run, enough
Q	A	not, cough
O:	O:	law, caught
U	U	put
u:	u:	soon, through
@	@	about, winner

SAMPA: English diphthongs
SAMPA		Examples
RP	US
eI	eI	day
aI	aI	my
OI	OI	boy
@U	o(U)	no
aU	aU	now
I@	ir	near, here
E@	er	hair, there
U@	Ur	poor
O@	Or	more
ju:	ju:	pupil

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