International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for American English

Vowels
ɑː	car, heart, bra	Open back unrounded vowel
æ	man, laugh, half	Near-open front unrounded vowel
ɛ	let, many, bury	Open-mid front unrounded vowel
ʌ	cut, love, blood	Open-mid back unrounded vowel
ɜː	bird, work, burn	Open-mid central unrounded vowel
ə	about, success, famous	Mid central vowel (schwa)
ɪ	hit, build, busy	Near-close near-front unrounded vowel
iː	meet, speak, people	Close front unrounded vowel
ɔː	door, more, talk	Open-mid back rounded vowel
ʊ	good, put, could	Near-close near-back rounded vowel
uː	food, who, fruit	Close back rounded vowel

Semivowels
j	yes, million, ambulance	Voiced palatal approximant
w	web, one, quick	Voiced labial–velar approximant

Consonants
b	ball, obtain, job	Voiced bilabial plosive
d	day, address, head	Voiced alveolar plosive
dʒ	joke, soldier, cage	Voiced postalveolar affricate
ð	this, father, breathe	Voiced dental fricative
f	fast, sphere, laugh	Voiceless labiodental fricative
ɡ	get, tiger, egg	Voiced velar plosive
h	hat, ahead, who	Voiceless glottal fricative
k	cat, school, take	Voiceless velar plosive
l	left, cold, feel	Voiced alveolar lateral approximant
m	miss, summer, game	Voiced bilabial nasal
n	night, dinner, phone	Voiced alveolar nasal
ŋ	finger, ring, uncle	Voiced velar nasal
p	pull, impact, cheap	Voiceless bilabial plosive
r	right, carrot, care	Voiced alveolar approximant
s	sad, discipline, police	Voiceless alveolar fricative
ʃ	ship, tension, fish	Voiceless postalveolar fricative
t	tell, attention, fact	Voiceless alveolar plosive
tʃ	chess, future, much	Voiceless postalveolar affricate
θ	thing, author, path	Voiceless dental fricative
v	video, over, wave	Voiced labiodental fricative
z	zoom, scissors, please	Voiced alveolar fricative
ʒ	genre, vision, massage	Voiced postalveolar fricative

Alophones
ʔ	button, mountain, suddenly	Glottal stop
ɾ, t̮	water, ready, pretty	Voiced alveolar flap
kʰ, pʰ, tʰ	cat, pet, ten	Aspirated voiceless stops
ɫ	feel, real, ball	Velarized alveolar approximant (dark L)

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