English IPA Chart (General American)
Phoneme uses General American English with a house notation of 38 phonemes: 14 vowels (9 monophthongs and 5 diphthongs) and 24 consonants. Stressed /ʌ/ is merged with schwa /ə/, and the LOT and THOUGHT vowels are merged as /ɑ/ (the cot–caught merger). British RP equivalents are noted on each sound page where they differ.
Vowels
| /i/leaf | /ɪ/pig | /e/bed | /æ/bag | /ə/bus | /ɑ/dog | /ʊ/book |
| /u/moon | /ɝ/bird | /eɪ/game | /aɪ/bike | /ɔɪ/toy | /oʊ/rose | /aʊ/house |
Consonants
| /p/pen | /b/ball | /t/tea | /d/door | /k/cat | /g/goat | /tʃ/chair | /dʒ/jar |
| /f/fish | /v/van | /θ/thumb | /ð/feather | /s/sun | /z/zoo | /ʃ/shoe | /ʒ/treasure |
| /m/map | /n/note | /ŋ/ring | /h/hat | /l/lamp | /r/rain | /j/yo-yo | /w/water |
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