Ling Phonetic IPA stuff

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[p]

voiceless bilabial stop

[b]

voiced bilabial stop

[m]

voiced bilabial nasal

[w]

voiced labial-velar approximant

[f]

voiceless labiodental fricative

[v]

voiced labiodental fricative

[θ]

voiceless dental fricative

[ð]

voiced dental fricative

[t]

voiceless alveolar stop

[d]

voiced alveolar stop

[n]

voiced alveolar nasal

[s]

voiceless alveolar fricative

[z]

voiced alveolar fricative

[l]

voiced alveolar lateral approximant

[ɹ]

voiced alveolar approximant

[ʃ]

voiceless postalveolar fricative

[ʒ]

voiced postalveolar fricative

[tʃ]

voiceless postalveolar affricate

[dʒ]

voiced postalveolar affricate

[j]

voiced palatal approximant

[k]

voiceless velar stop

[g]

voiced velar stop

[ŋ]

voiced velar nasal

[h]

voiceless glottal fricative

[ʔ]

voiceless glottal stop

[i]

close front unrounded vowel

[ɪ]

near-close front unrounded vowel

[u]

close back rounded vowel

[ʊ]

near-close back rounded vowel

[e]

close-mid front unrounded vowel

[ɛ]

open-mid front unrounded vowel

[ə]

mid central unrounded vowel

[ʌ]

open-mid back unrounded vowel; often treated as interchangeable with [ə] in this class

[ɔ]

open-mid back rounded vowel

[o]

close-mid back rounded vowel

[æ]

near-open front unrounded vowel

[a]

open front unrounded vowel

[ai]

fronting diphthong

[oi]

diphthong moving from a back rounded vowel toward a front vowel

[au]

diphthong moving from a front/central vowel toward a back rounded vowel

Bilabial

Made with both lips [p], [b], [m]

Labiodental

Made with lower lip + upper teeth [f], [v]

Dental

Made with the tongue + teeth

Alveolar

Made with the tongue at/near the alveolar ridge (the bump behind your upper teeth)

Postalveolar

Made with the tongue just behind the alveolar ridge

Palatal

Made with the middle of the tongue + hard palate (roof of mouth)

Velar

Made with the back of the tongue + soft palate/velum

Glottal

Made at the glottis/vocal folds in the throat

Labial-velar

Made with the lips + back of tongue at the velum simultaneously