How fast can you name all 26 words in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet? This quiz will put your knowledge and speed to the test.

The parchments discovered in the Judean Desert's Cave of Letters were written in two languages, Aramaic and Greek. Scientists who study language, known as linguists, can communicate about different ...

In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

The Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA) is a forum for original research in the fields of phonetic theory and description and their phonological, typological and broader ...

English spelling is notoriously irregular. While some linguists - notably Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle - have argued that the spelling system of English is actually great (they called it “close to ...

When you're on the phone and you're trying to say something like your postcode, for example, but the line is a little bit dodgy, sometimes you may reiterate the letter you're saying by repeating 'N ...

The following chart shows some of the International Phonetic Alphabet symbols and sounds they represent. Use it to decode the words found on your "Sound Communication" handout. The underlined portion ...