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Phonetic Alphabet

• A writing system used for transcribing the sounds of human speech into writing. This is a linguistic tool, not a replacement alphabet. Among phonetic alphabets are:
• The International Phonetic Alphabet
• SAMPA, an ASCII version
• X-SAMPA, an extension of SAMPA
• Kirshenbaum, an ASCII version originally developed for usenet newsgroups
• The phonetic symbols in Webster's Third New International Dictionary

• A new alphabet for languages which are not phonetic. It would replace the current one (at least for learning a language). For example:
• Herbert Bayer's fonetik alfabet
• Benjamin Franklin thought up six new characters in 1768.
• John Malone's UNIFON
• Sir James Pitman's ITA, the "initial teaching alphabet"
• Shavian alphabet, in honor of George Bernard Shaw.
• Jan Tschichold's alphabet

• A list of standard words used to identify letters in a message transmitted by voice (including over radio, telephone, etc.). Occasionally known as a "radio alphabet". See:
• NATO phonetic alphabet
• Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet
• RAF phonetic alphabet
• LAPD phonetic alphabet

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