International Phonetic Alphabet

The international phonetic alphabet was created by the International Phonetic Association to standardize spoken language is primarily based on the latin alphabet, it is an alphabetic system based on phonetic notation of latin. 


IPA symbols are composed of one or more elements of two basic types, letters and diacritics.
Slashes are often used to signal broad phonemic transcription.
It is used in dictionaries to help pronounce the words.

It has often been used to has often been used as a  basis for helping to create writings systems written languages which previously didn't exist.

Where symbols appear in pairs, the one on the right represents a voiced consonant, while the one on the left is unvoiced. Shaded areas denote articulations judged to be impossible.