The International Phonetic Alphabet

1. Used in dictionaries to indicate the pronunciation of words.

2. Daniel Jones (1881-1967) is known as the father of phonetics.

3. It was first published in 1888 and was revised several times in the 20th and 21st centuries.

4. Set of symbols that linguists use to describe the sounds of spoken languages.

5. IPA symbols are composed of one or more elements of two basic types, letters and diacritics.

6. The IPA primarily uses Roman characters.