A BRIEF ABOUT PHONETICS

Phonetics is a study about to transcribe a word to pronounce, or to learn to pronounce English words.

There are 44 sounds or characters while 26 letters are there in English to text the words.

We do not pronounce often according to characters as we use to do thorough letters.

In fact we use to adjust ourselves to pronounce words though letters are right solution to pronounce.

Only here, the 44 characters are helping us to make correct pronunciation to words.

Those 44 sounds are divided as 2 sections. They are vowels and Consonants.

There are 20 sounds in vowels and 24 in consonants.

The 20 sounds of vowels are divided as 2 sub-divisions. They are Pure vowels and Diphthongs.

There are 12 sounds in pure vowels while Diphthongs contains 8 sounds.

The 24 sound of consonants are divided as 6 sub-divisions.

Plosives: 6 sounds; Fricatives: 9 sounds; Affricates: 2 sounds; Nasals: 3 sounds; Lateral: 1 sound and the Semi vowels: 3 sounds.


Without combination of vowels and consonants, words cannot be pronounced.
Vowels are like cement to stick the consonants.
If you are well to transcribe the phonetics characters, you will come to know a lot how to pronounce English words.

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