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Height, Backness and Rounding

General

• IPA Vowels (Christian Kisa)
• University of Victoria IPA Chart with Sounds

Front-Rounded

• German Vowels (UCLA, Ladefoged)
• French Vowels (UCLA, Ladefoged)

Back-Unrounded

• Gaelic (Scottish) (UCLA, Ladefoged)
• Online Turkish Pronunciation Guide
• Turkish Alphabet (Princeton)
• Turkish (Istanbul) (UCLA, Ladefoged)

Other Vowel Features

[±ATR] Tense/Lax Vowels

• Akan, Open Syllables (UCLA Ladefoged)
• Also English, Closed Syllables (UCLA, Ladefoged)

Phonation (Creaky/Murmered)

• Phonation Exercises (Oxford)
• Mazatec (UCLA, Ladefoged)
• !Xóõ (UCLA, Ladefoged)
• Gujarati Breathy (UCLA Ladefoged)

Nasal Vowels

• French Vowels (UCLA, Ladefoged)
• Video of French vowel (UCLA, Ladefoged)

Unusual Diphthongs

• Welsh Diphthongs (Mark Nodine)
• More Welsh Diphthongs (Elizabeth Pyatt-non native)

Long Vowels

• Finnish Vowels
• Hindi Devanagari Alphabet (LaTrobe)
• German Vowels (UCLA, Ladefoged)

Dakota Color Bars

Color Bars (New Window)

Questions

1. What's the difference between the white, green, and  brown red rectangels on the row and the bicolored rectangles beneath them?
2. What's the difference between the pale blue rectangle and the blue and pink rectangle?
3. How is the pink and blue different from the  from the white/gray, green/grey, etc.
4. What's the difference between the bicolored rectangles on the bottom row and the pink, dark brown and yellow rectangles immediately above?

Alphabetic Correspondences (Not IPA)

Concept for Sound-Color Correspondences

I'm not necessarily advovationg this, just informing you of background of site.