para-IPA

adjective

Symbols commonly used in phonetic transcription alongside the International Phonetic Alphabet, but which are not officially included by the International Phonetic Association.

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Meanings

adjectivepara-IPA (not comparable)
  1. not comparablehuman sciencesSymbols commonly used in phonetic transcription alongside the International Phonetic Alphabet, but which are not officially included by the International Phonetic Association.
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    Those two proposals included a few retired and para-IPA letters, but consideration of historical and para-IPA modifiers was largely deferred until the IPA could more fully discuss the desired scope of such encoding through the newly established Alphabet, Charts and Fonts Committee. […] By ‘para-IPA,’ we mean symbols that are commonly used within IPA notation but that are not themselves part of the IPA alphabet.

    2024 June 6, Kirk Miller, “L2/24-171: Miscellaneous historical and para-IPA modifier letters”, in UTC Document Registry, page 1
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APA

para-IPA. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/para-IPA

MLA

“para-IPA.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/para-IPA. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “para-IPA,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/para-IPA.

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