The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system for writing down sounds. It was created by the International Phonetic Association in 1886, so that people could write down sounds of languages in a standard way. Linguists, language teachers, and translators use this system to show the pronunciation for words.

The International Phonetic Alphabet(IPA) is an alphabeticsystem of phonetic notationbased primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Associationin the late 19th century as a standardized representation of speech soundsin written form.