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| | Interloping Scripts |
 | | Phonetic notations outside the IPA standard or peripheral to it have at times employed other Greek letters: Pullum and Laduslaw (1996) record usage of alpha, delta, eta, lambda (in mainstream Americanist use as a voiced alveolar lateral affricate, IPA [dɮ]), pi, rho, sigma (more popular in phonology as a symbol for syllable), and omega. |
 | | And though case is alien to the IPA, the IPA epsilon and iota should clearly be identified with th African characters derived from them, rather than the Greek—if the IPA needs to choose between the two (and it does). |
 | | The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet is used in the linguistic analysis of Uralic languages alone; it is begotten of the unfortunate tendency I've bemoaned elsewhere, for each linguistic subdiscipline in the 19th century to come up with its own transcription scheme. |
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