The symbols on this clickable chart represent the 44 sounds used in British English speech (Received Pronunciation). Click on each symbol or sample word to hear. ( See also: Printable Phonemic Chart) Monophthong vowels are arranged by mouth shape: left > right, lips wide > lips round. top > bottom, jaw closed > jaw open.

Phonemic Chart. This phonemic chart uses symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). IPA symbols are useful for learning pronunciation. The symbols on this chart represent the 44 sounds used in British English speech (Received Pronunciation or RP, an educated accent associated with but not exclusive to south-east England).

IPA Chart With Sounds. The International Phonetic Alphabet chart with sounds lets you listen to each of the sounds from the IPA. Click on a symbol to hear the associated sound. Our IPA chart is responsive, this means it adjusts to any screen size. If part of the chart is not visible, please click the red and green arrows to see the additional symbols.

Pronunciation >> Pronunciation Materials >> All 44 phonemes of the English phonetic chart/alphabet. Help students recognise and produce sounds.

Allophones – Sounds 45 & 46. A standard British English chart has 44 sounds, but we’ve seen that the Pronunciation Studio chart has 2 extra sounds: 45 [ʔ] and 46 [ɫ]. These are not phonemes, they are allophones meaning a variation of a sound: 45.

A phoneme is a speech sound that is capable of changing the meaning of a word. For example, substituting the last sound in the word kiss with the sound /l/ creates another word – kill. Therefore, /s/ and /l/ are phonemes. Phonemic transcription uses phonemes to show the pronunciation of words. It is written between slashes, as in the examples below:

sounds are the music, or movement, of our language. The 44 phonemes represented below are in line with the International Phonetic Alphabet. Consonants Sound Common spelling Spelling alternatives /b/ b bb ball ribbon /d/ d dd ed dog add filled /f/ f ff ph gh lf ft fan /g/ g cliff gg phone gh laugh gu calf gue often grapes egg ghost guest catalogue /h/ h

1) one sound (phoneme) can be represented by one, two, three or four letters: e.g. /k/ c, /f/ ph, /igh/ igh, /ai/ eigh 2) one sound can be represented by different spellings (graphemes): e.g. /oa/ is represented by: o, oa, ow, oe, o-e, eau, ough 3) one spelling (grapheme) can …

Alternative pronunciations for graphemesPhase 5 Alternative spellings for phonemes Try thinking of words for some of these spelling choices. Find them in your child’s reading book and draw attention to them. This is the fifth and largest of the 6 phases. Children will blend sounds to build words for reading and segment words into