Key. If there is an IPA symbol you are looking for that you do not see here, see Help:IPA, which is a more complete list.For a table listing all spellings of the sounds on this page, see English orthography § Sound-to-spelling correspondences.For help converting spelling to pronunciation, see English orthography § Spelling-to-sound correspondences.

English is a language that started in Anglo-Saxon England.It is originally from Anglo-Frisian and Old Saxon dialects.English is now used as a global language. There are about 375 million native speakers (people who use it as their first language) in the world.. Frisian is the language closest to English. The vocabulary of English was influenced by other Germanic languages in the early …

Here is a basic key to the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet.For the smaller set of symbols that is sufficient for English, see Help:IPA/English.Several rare IPA symbols are not included; these are found in the main IPA article or on the extensive IPA chart.For the Manual of Style guideline for pronunciation, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation.