X-SAMPA
The Extended SAM Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at the University of London. It was designed to unify the individual language SAMPA alphabets, and extend SAMPA to cover the entire range of characters in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
The result is a SAMPA-inspired recasting of the IPA into 7-bit ASCII.
Summary
Notes The IPA symbols that are ordinary lower-case letters have the same value in X-SAMPA as they do in the IPA. X-SAMPA uses a following backslash as an escape character to create a new symbol. For example O is a distinct sound from O\\, to which it bears no relation. X-SAMPA diacritics follow the symbols they modify. Except for ~ for nasalization, =\ for syllabicity, and ` for retroflexion and rhotacization, diacritics are joined to the character with the underscore character _.The numbers _1 to _6 are reserved diacritics as shorthand for language-specific tone numbers.
Lowercase symbols
Uppercase symbols
Other symbols
Diacritics
Wikipedia usage
In Wikipedia the usage of IPA instead of X-SAMPA is recommended — see .
See also International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) International Phonetic Alphabet for English IPA in Unicode SAMPA, a language-specific predecessor of X-SAMPA. Kirshenbaum, a similar system. List of phonetics topics
External links Computer-coding the IPA: A proposed extension of SAMPA X-SAMPA to IPA comparison chart
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