Americanist phonetic notation

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Americanist phonetic notation is a system of phonetic transcription traditionally used by linguists in the Americas to represent the sounds of Indigenous and other languages with a specialized set of symbols.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf orthographic convention
phonetic transcription system
comparedWith International Phonetic Alphabet NERFINISHED
contemporaneousWith International Phonetic Alphabet NERFINISHED
developedFor American Indigenous languages
developedIn North America NERFINISHED
United States NERFINISHED
differsFrom International Phonetic Alphabet in symbol values
International Phonetic Alphabet in transcription conventions NERFINISHED
International Phonetic Alphabet in use of diacritics
hasCharacteristic based on Latin alphabet
multiple regional conventions
non-IPA symbol inventory
specialized set of symbols
uses diacritics
uses digraphs
uses modified Roman letters
variation between authors
hasNotationVariant American Phonetic Alphabet NERFINISHED
North American Phonetic Alphabet NERFINISHED
hasSymbolFor ejective consonants
glottalized consonants
nasalized vowels
palatalized consonants
retroflex consonants
stress
tone
vowel length
historicallyAssociatedWith American structuralist linguistics NERFINISHED
Boasian tradition
influencedBy 19th-century philological traditions
missionary orthographies
partiallyReplacedBy International Phonetic Alphabet in contemporary practice
stillUsedBy some field linguists
stillUsedIn dictionaries of Indigenous American languages
grammars of Indigenous American languages
usedBy linguists in the Americas
usedFor descriptive linguistics
documentation of endangered languages
field linguistics
phonemic transcription
phonetic transcription
usedForLanguageFamily Indigenous languages of the Americas
Mesoamerican languages
Native American languages
North American Indigenous languages
South American Indigenous languages NERFINISHED
usedIn linguistics
usedToRepresent allophones
phonemes
speech sounds

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Hupa language writingSystem Americanist phonetic notation
Lummi language writingSystem Americanist phonetic notation
Southern Unami writingSystem Americanist phonetic notation