American English Vowel Diagram
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/i/
eat
/u/
who
/ɪ/
it
/ʊ/
look
/ə/
the
/o/
open
/ɛ/
said
/ʌ/
cut
/ɔ/
ought
/æ/
at
/ɑ/
father
Front
Central
Back
Close
Mid
Open
American English Diphthongs
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/eɪ/
day
/aɪ/
my
/ɔɪ/
boy
/oʊ/
go
/aʊ/
now
American English Consonant Chart
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| Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stops | /p/ project /b/ backend | /t/ test /d/ data | /k/ code /g/ git | /ʔ/ uh-oh | ||||
| Affricates | /tʃ/ chair /dʒ/ engineer | |||||||
| Fricatives | /f/ file /v/ variable | /θ/ threshold /ð/ therefore | /s/ system /z/ zero | /ʃ/ share /ʒ/ version | /h/ hardware | |||
| Nasals | /m/ management | /n/ network | /ŋ/ debugging | |||||
| Approximants | /ɹ/ report /l/ align | |||||||
| Glides | /j/ yes | /w/ workflow |