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		The NATO phonetic alphabet was developed in the 1950s to be intelligible (and pronounceable) to all NATO allies.
		The NATO phonetic alphabet is now widely used in business and telecommunications in Europe and North America, and has been approved by ICAO for use in international civil aviation.
		The NATO phonetic alphabet is generally understood by Amateurs in all countries.
	www.ac6v.com /dxphonetics.htm (426 words)

	Wikipedia: International Phonetic Alphabet
		NATO phonetic alphabet ("alpha bravo") has been informally and nonstandardly called the International Phonetic Alphabet as well.
		The International Phonetic Alphabet was originally developed by British and French phoneticians under the auspices of the International Phonetic Association, established in Paris in 1886 (both the organisation and the phonetic script are best known as IPA).
		Most letters are taken from the Roman alphabet or derived from it, some are taken from the Greek alphabet, and some are apparently unrelated to any standard alphabet.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/i/in/international_phonetic_alphabet.html (428 words)

	Learn more about International Phonetic Alphabet in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		NATO phonetic alphabet ("alpha bravo") has been informally and nonstandardly called the International Phonetic Alphabet as well.
		The International Phonetic Alphabet was originally developed by British and French phoneticians under the auspices of the International Phonetic Association, established in Paris in 1886 (both the organisation and the phonetic script are best known as IPA).
		Most letters are taken from the Roman alphabet or derived from it, some are taken from the Greek alphabet, and some are apparently unrelated to any standard alphabet.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /i/in/international_phonetic_alphabet.html (416 words)

	NATO phonetic alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The century older International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is often confused with the NATO phonetic alphabet owing to their similar names.
		To identify the deficiencies of the new alphabet, testing was conducted among speakers from 31 nations, principally by the governments of the United Kingdom and the United States.
		The NATO phonetic alphabet is referred to repeatedly in Robert Ludlum's novel The Bourne Identity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet (3098 words)

	International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The NATO phonetic alphabet, which is different, has also informally been called the "International Phonetic Alphabet".
		The letters chosen for the IPA are generally drawn from the Latin and Greek alphabets, or are modifications of Latin or Greek letters.
		So phonemic /nixt/ is equivalent to phonetic [najt], but only if you share the belief that historical sounds such as the gh in night may remain in a word long after they have ceased to be pronounced, or that a phoneme may exist in a language without ever being directly expressed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet (4669 words)

	International Phonetic Alphabet - Avoo - Ask Us A Question -
		The symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet are divided into three categories: letters, diacritics, and suprasegmentals (symbols that indicate such things as the tone and inflection of a spoken utterance).
		Extensions of the alphabet are relatively recent; the Extended IPA was first created in 1991 and revised to 1997.
		The sound-values of most consonants taken from the Latin alphabet correspond roughly to those of French, and are also close to those of most other European languages (including English): these consonants are [b], [d], [f], (hard) [g], [k], [l], [m], [n], [p], (voiceless) [s], [t], [v], and [z].
	www.avoo.com /wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet (2913 words)

	International Phonetic Alphabet at AllExperts
		The alphabet is intended to provide a standardized, accurate and unique representation for every sound element in human language, that is distinguished as a phone or a phoneme.
		These teachers based the IPA upon the Romic alphabet of Henry Sweet (1880–1881, 1971), which was formed from the Phonotypic Alphabet of Isaac Pitman and Alexander John Ellis (Kelly 1981).
		Phonetic transcriptions using the IPA are usually enclosed in square brackets ([]).
	en.allexperts.com /e/i/in/international_phonetic_alphabet.htm (3883 words)

	International Phonetic Alphabet - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The NATO phonetic alphabet ("alpha bravo") had also informally been called the 'International Phonetic Alphabet', though these two are unrelated.
		The International Phonetic Alphabet is a system of phonetic notation used by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) the human vocal apparatus can produce.
		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.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/IPA (1440 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The NATO phonetic alphabet
		The phonetic alphabet is a system created by the NATO allies in the 1950s that would be intelligible and pronounceable to all NATO allies in the heat of battle.
		The reason that any phonetic alphabet is (or was) used is because telephone, radio and walkie-talkie communications had the habit of crackling over long distances, blotting out whole words or even sentences.
		The NATO Phonetic Alphabet is not the only phonetic alphabet in use, but it definitely is the one used by the most people and countries.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A8245910 (946 words)

	ipedia.com: International Phonetic Alphabet Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is intended as a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages.
		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.
		When characters from the IPA phonetic alphabet are embedding in another script they are isolated from from the rest of the text with either slasheses ("/") or square brackets ("[" and "]").
	www.ipedia.com /international_phonetic_alphabet.html (524 words)

	Phonetic Alphabet - www.canadiansoldiers.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Phonetic Alphabets were used throughout the Twentieth Century by the Canadian Army as an aid to communication, especially when using telephone or wireless equipment.
		The "phonetic alphabet" referred to in military history differs from the linguistics term "phonetic alphabet", which refers to a set of symbols which describe the pronunciation of words.
		NATO uses the normal English numeric words (Zero, One), except for 5 and 9, which are pronounced "fife" and "niner", whereas the IMO uses compound numeric words (Nadazero, Unaone).
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Phonetic_Alphabet (658 words)

	spanish phonetic alphabet? (Linguistics)
		An aspect of Phonetics deals with the place of the mouth where the sounds are produced and other events that affect these sounds; that is, the sounds are categorized according to the anatomical structures that intervene in the generation of the language sounds.
		This alphabet is primarily used for designating existing "letters" in a language when you need to spell a word (usually a code word) out over a voice only telecommunications channel (eg, phone).
		One of the reasons for this NATO system is that the names of "letters" pronounced by a voice channel can be ambiguous due to pronunciation differences between people combined with the quality of the voice channel.
	www.proz.com /topic/42462 (1161 words)

	International Phonetic Alphabet - Gurupedia
		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.
		The vowel symbols that are identical to those in the Latin alphabet ([a], [e], [i], [o], [u]) correspond roughly to the vowels of Spanish or Italian.
		When characters from the IPA phonetic alphabet are embedding in another script they are isolated from from the rest of the text with either slashes ("/") or square brackets ("[" and "]").
	www.gurupedia.com /i/in/international_phonetic_alphabet.htm (460 words)

	NATO Phonetic Alphabet
		The Phonetic Alphabet is mainly used in two-way radio communications when spelling out a word rather than just saying the letters.
		By using a phonetic alphabet, the effects of noise, distortion, and accents are reduced.
		During World War II a joint Army and Navy phonetic alphabet, sometimes known as "able baker", was developed.
	www.military-clothing-and-supplies.com /phonetic-alphabet.html (114 words)

	The NATO Phonetic Alphabet
		The phonetic alphabet, or commonly dubbed the NATO phonetic alphabet is universal not only for radio but wherever it can aid verbal communications.
		The International Civil Aviation Organisation devised a new alphabet in 1956 that was adopted shortly after by the International Telecommunications Union, appearing in the radio regs.
		The alphabetic was used for joint naval activities of the NATO and United States, and to differentiate from what existed previously, it was referred to as the NATO alphabet.
	www.southgatearc.org /news/april2006/nato_phonetic_alphabet.htm (276 words)

	Phonetic alphabet - International Phonetic Alphabet - Factbites
		The most commonly used phonetic alphabet today is that adopted by NATO in The spelling used for the alphabet here and the phonetics for digits are as
		Phonetic Alphabet: [font sample]: A phonetic system, although not a complete IPA set.
		A phonetic alphabet is a list of words used to identify letters in a An early version of the phonetic alphabet appears in the 1913 edition of The
	webinfofeed.com /wifd/phonetic-alphabet.htm (410 words)

	Articles - International Phonetic Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet are divided into three categories: Letters (which indicate âbasicâ sounds), diacritics (which further specify those sounds), and suprasegmentals (which indicate such qualities as speed, tone, and stress).
		The symbols chosen for the IPA are meant to harmonize with the Latin alphabet.
		Semyon Novgorodov - the inventor of IPA-based Yakut alphabet.
	www.lastring.com /articles/International_Phonetic_Alphabet?mySession=e5560a563649926080382ce2da19da87 (5310 words)

	Al N' Jane : Ham Radio : Phonetic Alphabet Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This alphabet dates from about 1955 and is approved by the International Civil Aviation Organization, the FAA and the International Telecommunication Union, and many National Amateur Leagues/Societies/Organizations.
		The NATO phonetic alphabet was developed in the 1950s to be intelligible (and pronounceable) to all NATO allies in the heat of battle.
		The NATO phonetic alphabet is generally understood by Amateurs in all countries.
	members.shaw.ca /bikeal/ham/ham_pc.html (331 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for alphabet
		ALPHABET A system of written and printed LANGUAGE in which each symbol generally represents one sound, as with b for the voiced bilabial stop at the beginning of the word boat in the ROMAN alphabet as used for English.Nature In most alphabetic systems, such as the Roman alphabet as used for...
		The word alphabet is derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta.
		Alphabet used for Russian, Serbian (Serbo-Croatian language), Bulgarian and Macedonian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, and many non-Slavic languages of the former Soviet Union, as well as Khalka Mongolian (Mongolian language).
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=alphabet (801 words)

	Urban Dictionary: nato phonetic alphabet
		Special olympics terminology for the NATO phonetic alphabet where each letter is represented by a unique word, which amazingly enough, starts with the letter it represents.
		Phonetic combination used by Flight Simulator 2002 nerds to personalise their aircraft; thus the word 'FUCK' spells itself on the aircraft's tail.
		It is the fourth word in the phonetic alphabet mostly used in military communications.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=nato+phonetic+alphabet (396 words)

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		There is no official NATO publication containing the NATO phonetic alphabet: this is becase "NATO phonetic alphabet" is actually the common name for the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) which has been adopted by the military of each NATO country.
	www.answerbag.com /q_view/2669 (899 words)

	Halfbakery: Better Phonetic Alphabet
		A certain [Mickey the Fish] proposed a new phonetic alphabet that was meant to be a joke.
		Astounding collection of phonetic alphabets from all over; choice seems to be pretty arbitrary.
		Maybe that's actually good, but I can't find any scientific studies of the NATO alphabet to explain why the names were chosen ("oscar" replaced "oboe," and "mike" seems like it would get lost in a crackly radio transmission).
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Better_20Phonetic_20Alphabet (537 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - RAF phonetic alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The RAF phonetic alphabet is not a phonetic alphabet in the sense in which that term is used in phonetics, i.e., it is not a system for transcribing speech sounds.
		These have now all been superseded by the "NATO phonetic alphabet" actually the ICAO alphabet.
		In 1956 the so called NATO phonetic alphabet was adopted.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/RAF_phonetic_alphabet (284 words)

	NATO Phonetic Alphabet
		The NATO Phonetic Alphabet was developed in the 1950s to be intelligible (and pronounceable) to all NATO allies in the heat of battle.
		It replaced other phonetic alphabets, for example the US military "able baker" alphabet.
		The NATO Phonetic Alphabet is now widely used in business and telecommunications in Europe and North America.
	www.dynamoo.com /technical/phonetic.htm (112 words)

	NATO Phonetic Alphabet - AAManual
		A phonetic alphabet is a list of words used to identify letters in a message transmitted by radio or telephone.
		For example, the word "Army" would be "Alpha Romeo Mike Yankee" when spelled in the phonetic alphabet.
		This practice helps to prevent confusion between similar sounding letters, such as "m" and "n", and to clarify communications that may be garbled during transmission.
	manual.americasarmy.com /index.php/NATO_Phonetic_Alphabet (72 words)

	Phonetic Alphabet
		The Phonetic Alphabet is used to spell out letters in place of just saying the letter itself.
		The phonetic alphabet is used primarily used in two-way radio communications.
		This alphabet is recognized by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and NATO as the standard for aircraft communications and radio communications.
	www.grc.nasa.gov /WWW/MAEL/ag/phonetic.htm (296 words)

	RAF phonetic alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The United Kingdom's Royal Air Force (RAF) used a succession of phonetic alphabets to aid communication.
		These have now all been superseded by the NATO phonetic alphabet.
		In 1956 the NATO phonetic alphabet was adopted.
	www.wordlookup.net /ra/raf-phonetic-alphabet.html (369 words)

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