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 ...

Whether you're effected by Hurricane Sandy or not, bad reception is never something you want to mess around with. Reddit user psychuil points to the official phonetic alphabet as a great means to ...

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 ...

From NATO phonetic to the Greek alphabet, plus historic military codes, Morse Symbols, and other tricky letter systems, there ...

Backers of a universal alphabet say it will make pronunciation easy and foster international understanding. But can phonetic spelling systems really smooth the path to world peace? You are in Vietnam ...