Phonetic alphabet

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A phonetic alphabet is any of three things:

A type of phonetic notation used for transcribing the sounds of human speech into writing. This is a linguistic tool, not a replacement alphabet. Among phonetic alphabets are:
* Americanist phonetic notation
* The International Phonetic Alphabet
** SAMPA, an ASCII version
** X-SAMPA, an extension of SAMPA
** Kirshenbaum, an ASCII version originally developed for usenet newsgroups
* The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet
* The phonetic symbols in dictionaries like Webster's Third New International Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary

Relatedly, a writing system that deals with phonemes is likely to be called a phonetic alphabet, although the term phonemic alphabet might be used instead.

A new alphabet for languages which do not have phonemic orthographies. It would replace the current one (at least for learning a language). For example:
* John Malone's UNIFON
* Sir James Pitman's ITA, the "initial teaching alphabet"
* Shavian alphabet, in honor of George Bernard Shaw.
* Jan Tschichold's alphabet
* William Bullokar's alphabet
* Benjamin Franklin had some additional characters to add to the alphabet [link].

A list of standard words used to identify letters in a message transmitted by voice (including over radio, telephone, etc.). The term phonetic, though common, is a misnomer in this context, as the purpose of such alphabets is to identify spelling rather than pronunciation. They are occasionally known as "radio alphabets". See:
* NATO phonetic alphabet
* Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet
* Japanese phonetic alphabet
* RAF phonetic alphabet
* LAPD phonetic alphabet
* Finnish armed forces' radio alphabet
* Hellenic phonetic alphabet

External links

[Phonetic/spelling alphabets for various languages]

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