![]() The underlying principle is that any spectrally and temporally distinct speech sound (not including pitch) which is phonemic in some language should have a separate base symbol. Many of the symbols are the same as other schemes. ![]() Wherever possible, the present scheme was made similar to the base IPA symbols, so that many of the symbols will seem to have obvious meanings. The present scheme borrows on earlier work by George Allen, Ian Maddieson, John Wells, Laver et al. When an attempt was made to label a large number of languages with phonemic and phonetic symbols, these were found to be inadequate. Many of the previous ASCII versions were targeted at European languages and therefore left out many of the sounds of the other languages or used symbols for unusual sounds like clicks, for plosive bursts. A new ASCII encoding of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and additional symbols has been designed for all languages.
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