para-IPA

English

Adjective

para-IPA (not comparable)

  1. (phonetics) Symbols commonly used in phonetic transcription alongside the International Phonetic Alphabet, but which are not officially included by the International Phonetic Association.
    Coordinate terms: extIPA, IPA, JIPA
    • 2024 June 6, Kirk Miller, “L2/24-171: Miscellaneous historical and para-IPA modifier letters”, in UTC Document Registry[1], page 1:
      Those two proposals included a few retired and para-IPA letters, but consideration of historical and para-IPA modifiers was largely deferred until the IPA could more fully discuss the desired scope of such encoding through the newly established Alphabet, Charts and Fonts Committee. [] By ‘para-IPA,’ we mean symbols that are commonly used within IPA notation but that are not themselves part of the IPA alphabet.