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Most Material from - Ladefoged.com or UCLA, Peter Ladefoged Sound Archives

General Resources

Transcription Symbols

• University of Victoria IPA Chart with Sounds
• IPA Full Chart - Shows all  all symbols in the chart
• French IPA (API) Chart with Sound Samples - Text in French, but vocabulary similar to English

Audio By Language

Includes audio samples

• Arabic
• Dutch Pronunciation
• Chinese (Mandarin)
• English - American vs. British (UCLA, Ladefoged)
• Japanese
• Hindi Alphabet (Penn) - includes video
• Norwegian Pronunciation
• Thai Aphabet
• Tamil Alphabet (Penn)
• Welsh

Audio By Natural Class

• UCLA Ladegofed Index (Good coverage of African Languages)

Place

Bilabial vs. Labiodental

NOTE: Languages which confuse "v" with /b/ or /w/ may have a voiced bilabial fricative [β] (Beta)

• Ewe (UCLA, Ladefoged)
• Venda (UCLA, Ladefoged)

Alveolar Affricates

• Old Spanish (UCLA)
• Polish (UCLA, Ladefoged)

Retroflex (and other Apicals)

• Hindi Alphabet Dental and Retroflex (Australian National University)
• Nunggubuyu and Malayalam (UCLA Ladefoged) - 3 Way contrast
• Yanyuwa (UCLA, Ladefoged)
• Toda (UCLA, Ladefoged)

Palatal and Velar Nasals

• Welsh Consonants - Word-Initial Engma
• Vietnamese (SEASite) Word-Initial Engma, /ñ/

Palatals

• Palatal Lateral (Italian) also Italian UCLA, Ladefoged
• Hungarian (UCLA, Ladefoged)

Velar Fricative

• Modern Greek (UCLA, Ladefoged)
• Aymara (Aymara.org)
• Welsh Consonants (Mark Nodine)
• Vietnamese (SEASite)

NOTE: For some languages like Welsh, /x/ is articulated as the uvular fricative [χ] (chi).

Uvular

• Aymara (Aymara.Org)
• K'ekchi (UCLA, Ladefoged)

Labialvelars

• Idoma (UCLA, Ladefoged)
• Welsh gwlad  (Mark Nodine)

Manner

Geminates

• Cyberitalian
• Finnish Length

Clicks

• !Xóõ (UCLA, Ladefoged)
• Xhosa (UCLA, Ladefoged)
• Nama (UCLA, Ladefoged)

Glottals

• Hawi'ian Words (Aloha-Hawaii)

Trills and Laterals

• Voiceless Lateral Fricative - Welsh and Bura
• Voiced and Voiceless Lateral Fricative - Zulu
• Dental and Velar l - Melpa

Prenasalized Consonants

• Sinhala (Speak Sinhala)

Secondary Articulations

• Palatalized Consonants - Russian (UCLA, Ladegofed)
• Pharyngealized Consonants - Syrian Arabic (UCLA, Ladefoged)
• Lateral Release - Zulu

Laryngeal Features

Aspirated vs. Voiced

• Hindi Alphabet (Australian National University)
• Igbo (UCLA, Ladefoged)

Preaspirated Consonants

• Icelandic (UCLA, Ladefoged)
• Gaelic (Scots) (NB: Site is named after Basque god, so instructor slightly skeptical)

Ejectives and Implosives

• Navaho (UCLA, Ladefoged)
• Quechua (UCLA, Ladefoged)
• Aymara (Aymara.org)
• Hausa Consonants (UCLA, Ladefoged)

Voiceless Nasal

• Burmese (UCLA, Ladefoged)

Phonation (Creaky/Murmered)

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

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