In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

many languages in the world, and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is defined to describe the pronunciation of every language in the world. In the ' IPA Chart ', you can hear the actual ...

This is the second of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the second of eight other consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore ...

The parchments discovered in the Judean Desert's Cave of Letters were written in two languages, Aramaic and Greek. Scientists who study language, known as linguists, can communicate about different ...

The answer partly depends on whether we are talking about the sounds or letters of vowels and consonants. By mentioning “alphabetic languages”, the questioner is presumably asking why most versions of ...