Abstract
The purpose of this study is to reveal that the use of international phonetic symbols has been different in East and West Germany from World War II to the present. There has been a deviation not only in the use of IPA‐international phonetic symbols chronologically and regionally, but also in the actual language use of diphthongs and Schwa-/ə/, which was also found to be realized differentially in East and West Germany. The results are as follows. First, before World War II, German diphthongs that were written as [ae ao ɔø] in East and West Germany were written as [aɛ̯ aɔ̯ ɔoe̯] in East Germany after the division, whereas they were written as [ai͜ au͜ ɔy͜] in West Germany. Second, Schwa-/ə/ en is written as weakened or omitted [n̩] in West Germany, however it was nasalized or was written as [m̩] and as [ŋ] depending on the phonological environment in East Germany. Third, the deviation of these IPA between East and West Germany were also found in the language usage.
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