Does the International Phonetic Alphabet refer to British or American sounds?

The International Phonetic Alphabet does not distinguish between American sounds and British sounds. The so-called beautiful sound, the sound in English refers to the pronunciation of specific words.

On the specific understanding of international phonetic symbols;

1. The International Phonetic Alphabet is neither British nor American. The International Phonetic Alphabet was created by British and French scholars, and is mainly applicable to the annotation of Indo-European languages, African languages and some minority languages. After the book was published, it was very popular in European linguistics. Most Americans still use their own symbols to study American Indian languages.

2. The International Phonetic Alphabet can be used to express the pronunciation of any language, and the English International Phonetic Alphabet refers to the situation when it is applied to English. The local accents of several native English speakers differ more in vowels than in consonants. Therefore, the description of vowels in this entry is divided into three parts: receiving pronunciation, common American English and Australian English.

3. International Phonetic Alphabet, also known as IPA, is a symbol system used to mark all languages in the world. It originated from 1888 and was formulated by the International Phonetic Association.

4. The International Phonetic Alphabet follows the strict standard of "one sound, one symbol" and was originally used to mark western languages and African languages. After years of development, with the efforts of China linguist Zhao Yuanren and others, the International Phonetic Alphabet has been gradually improved and can be used to annotate Chinese and other oriental languages.