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 | | The alphabet has undergone a number of revisions during its history, including some major ones codified by the IPA Kiel Convention (1989); the most recent revision was in 1993, updated again in 1996. |
 | | English as well as many other European languages: [b], [d], [f], [g], [h], [k], [l], [m], [n], [p], [s], [t], [v], [w], [z]. |
 | | The difference between these alphabets and IPA is relatively small, although often the special characters of the IPA are abandoned in favour of diacritics or digraphs in these alphabets, since many typewriters and older computers have no support for the many special characters of the IPA. |
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