#if you do not specify what ipa symbol the letter of the alphabet represents i will not understand it | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

fivenightsatcorans · 11 months

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gently holding the hands of the author of any wikipedia phonology article for a language that uses the latin alphabet: it’s okay, you can use your IPA here. yes i know a lot of the symbols look similar. this is a phonoooollloooogyyyy article, so we have to use standard symbols or people who don’t know the language won’t understand

#if you do not specify what ipa symbol the letter of the alphabet represents i will not understand it #every european language uses the ö symbol to represent a different sound. just because it’s in the article for finnish doesn’t mean i know #where the finnish ö is on a vowel chart in comparison with like. the german ö or something

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