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| | Introducing the SAMPA alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Lower-case consonant letters that you will not find in SAMPA are c, q and x, which have no ‘sound of their own.’ The letter c represents either the k sound, as in cloud or the s sound, as in cite. |
 | | Combinations of upper- or lower-case SAMPA letters with w or y indicate the free vowels: These vowels (with the possible exception of Ow) are generally classed as diphthongized, that is, as combinations of two vowels (i.e., two tongue positions) one starting, and a different one ending. |
 | | SAMPA (Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet) is the creation of an international group of phoneticians;it is a machine-readable phonetic alphabet, developed to cover as many of the world’s languages as possible. |
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