International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects


This chart shows the most common applications of the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent English language pronunciations.
See Pronunciation respelling for English for phonetic transcriptions used in different dictionaries.
This chart gives a partial system of diaphonemes for English. The symbols for the diaphonemes are given in bold, followed by their most common phonetic values. For the vowels, a separate phonetic value is given for each major dialect, and words used to name corresponding lexical sets are also given. The diaphonemes and lexical sets given here are based on RP and General American; they are not sufficient to express all of the distinctions found in other dialects, such as Australian English.