International Phonetic Alphabet Chart

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) chart is a visual system that represents the sounds of human speech uniformly across languages. It uses specific symbols to depict each distinct sound, called phonemes, regardless of how they are spelled in any language. This allows linguists, language learners, and speech professionals to accurately transcribe and compare spoken sounds worldwide. The chart organizes sounds by their type—such as vowels, consonants, and suprasegmentals—making it easier to understand pronunciation differences across languages in a standardized way.