Names of IPA

[Ikramullah]

Hello, respected teachers.
Where can i find the names of phonetic alphabets?
i know schwa and water pot. I do not know the names of the other phonetic alphabets.
Plz help me.

[BobK]

Originally Posted by Ikramullah

Hello, respected teachers.
Where can i find the names of phonetic alphabets?
i know schwa and water pot. I do not know the names of the other phonetic alphabets.
Plz help me.

I suppose 'water pot' is /ʊ/. If so, it is a classroom mnemonic that I haven't met.

I don't know of a list of such 'friendly' names. If you want names of the symbols used in the IPA (which I think is what you want) I can give instructions for Window only. Open the Character Map (depending on your operating system it is either an Accessory or in Accessories>System Tools). Select Lucida Sans Unicode, which should be available on any modern Windows system. Point and click on the symbol you want, and at the foot of the window the name of that symbol appears (following a Unicode number, which may be useful if you have a remarkably good memory!); the name of the symbol you know as 'water pot' is 'Small Latin Letter Upsilon'. I know which I prefer

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[Raymott]

Originally Posted by Ikramullah

Hello, respected teachers.
Where can i find the names of phonetic alphabets?
i know schwa and water pot. I do not know the names of the other phonetic alphabets.
Plz help me.

You are talking about letters or symbols. An alphabet is the whole of a set of symbols, eg. the IPA alphabet, the Russian (cyrillic) alphabet, the Arabic alphabet...

You could start here:
Naming conventions of the International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not many symbols have specific names, but some are: schwa, esh, eth, theta, ash, yogh.
More often they are simply called: reversed e, retroflex r, turned script a ...
What is a water pot?

[BobK]

Further to my last post, which made what may have seemed like an irrelevant reference to Lucida Sans Unicode: that font has the benefits of working for UE, being installed on all Windows computers, and including enough of the IPA characters to transcribe English - so it will work for non-specialists who can't be bothered to download a new font.

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[anupumh]

Originally Posted by Ikramullah

Hello, respected teachers.
Where can i find the names of phonetic alphabets?
i know schwa and water pot. I do not know the names of the other phonetic alphabets.
Plz help me.

I know about schwa (symbol is inverted e). I have never heard of water pot. However I have heard chinese hat/cap or wet/wedge sound (the symbol is ^). Are you referring to this?

[sash2008]

IPA-to-keyboard Transcription key

[konungursvia]

Originally Posted by BobK

I suppose 'water pot' is /ʊ/. If so, it is a classroom mnemonic that I haven't met.

I don't know of a list of such 'friendly' names. If you want names of the symbols used in the IPA (which I think is what you want) I can give instructions for Window only. Open the Character Map (depending on your operating system it is either an Accessory or in Accessories>System Tools). Select Lucida Sans Unicode, which should be available on any modern Windows system. Point and click on the symbol you want, and at the foot of the window the name of that symbol appears (following a Unicode number, which may be useful if you have a remarkably good memory!); the name of the symbol you know as 'water pot' is 'Small Latin Letter Upsilon'. I know which I prefer

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Upsilon is Greek, Roman propagandist!

[Ikramullah]

The latin small letter upsilon is I think called a water pot.

[konungursvia]

Originally Posted by Ikramullah

The latin small letter upsilon is I think called a water pot.

Latin has no upsilon, its Greek.

[Raymott]

Originally Posted by konungursvia

Latin has no upsilon, its Greek.

/bʊk/ book
ʊ Unicode 028A – Latin Small letter upsilon
υ Unicode 03C5 - Greek small letter upsilon

Latin may have no upsilon, but that's what it's called in IPA.