• Rogue@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    Is anyone able to read IPA without that key? This is where I get lost. It’s an entire new language for a very specific thing so I can’t imagine anyone but language scholars finding it useful

    • Elsie@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 days ago

      yeah I can read without the key, it’s not that hard, and it’s not a new language, it’s just a script that unambiguously maps phonemes to “letters”.

    • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      2 days ago

      The ones used for English? Sure. When it comes to other languages I certainly don’t know all of them though.

      Though, that is at least partially due to me learning English as a second language so I’ve looked at these a lot in dictionaries.