Phonetic symbol classification

The classification of phonetic symbols is mainly divided into three categories: international phonetic symbols, phonetic symbols and dialect phonetic symbols.

Knowledge expansion:

International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a set of symbol system for pronunciation developed by IPA. Its main purpose is to accurately record and transmit phoneme (phoneme) information of various languages.

The International Phonetic Alphabet uses Latin letters and their variants, supplemented by some special symbols to express phonetic features, such as the pronunciation position of consonants, the tongue position and mouth shape of vowels, etc. With its high accuracy and expressiveness, International Phonetic Alphabet is widely used in phonetics research, linguistics teaching and international phonetic communication.

The phonetic symbol of Chinese Pinyin is a phonetic system adopted by China Pinyin Scheme. It uses Latin letters and their variants, and combines some special symbols to represent syllables and tones in Chinese.

Phonetic symbols are widely used in Chinese education, Chinese character input method, dictionary compilation and foreign language teaching in China. The main characteristics of pinyin phonetic symbols are simple and clear, easy to learn and use.

Dialect phonetic symbol is a symbol system used to record and study dialect pronunciation. Because of the vast territory of China and the great differences in dialects, there are many phonetic symbols in dialects.

The phonetic symbols of these dialects are often expanded and adjusted on the basis of international phonetic symbols or phonetic symbols, so as to express the phonetic features and pronunciation rules of local dialects more accurately. Dialect phonetic symbols have important application value in dialect research, language variation, historical phonology and other fields.

Besides Chinese, there are various phonetic systems of other languages in the world. For example, English uses international phonetic symbols to represent its phonemes, French uses variants of international phonetic symbols to represent its phonemes, and German uses a special spelling method to represent its phonetic features.

The phonetic systems of different languages are produced according to their own phonetic characteristics and the needs of linguistic research, and there may be some differences and changes in actual use.

International phonetic symbols are suitable for phonetics research and international phonetic communication, phonetic symbols are suitable for Chinese Pinyin and Chinese education, and dialect phonetic symbols are suitable for dialect research and language variation. Phonetic symbol systems of different languages are produced according to their respective phonetic features, which are used to accurately record and transmit phonetic information.