History of the IPA

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History of the IPA

General principle of the IPA

The International Phonetic Alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet

Provide one letter for each distinctive sound (speech segment).

Revisions

2005

Addition of a letter

1993

Addition of four letters

1989

Kiel Convention

1932

Expansions

1930

1888

Revision of the Romic alphabet

Among the symbols of the IPA

19 additional signs indicate suprasegmental qualities such as length, tone, stress, and intonation.

31 diacritics are used to modify these

107 letters represent consonants and vowels

Presidents of the IPA

Current president

Michael Ashby (2019 - )

The first woman to be president of the IPA

Patricia Keating (2015 - 2019)

First non-european president

Suniti Kumar Chatterji (Indian, 1969 - 1977)

There have been a total of 14 presidents

First Alphabet

Romic Alphabet

Purpose

Born out of the need for linguists to

Easily communicate to each other what sounds they're talking about

Try to capture all the sounds in all the languages

First created by French and British teachers

First president of the IPA, 1886 - 1888

Led by Paul Passy

1886 - Dhi Fonètik Tîtcerz' Asóciécon (the FTA) is created.

1897 - Changed its name to The International Phonetic Association (the IPA)