Abstract
Since the invention of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in 1886, it remains the only alphabet that can represent all the sounds of world languages. However, the IPA symbols are based on the Roman letters. This means that speakers of languages which possess different orthography are not able to use them. For example, Arab linguists and researchers find it almost impossible to use IPA when they write in Arabic script; Arabic orthography differs in shape and direction of writing. In addition, IPA does not have symbols for the emphatic sounds: / ,/ط/ ,/ض/ ,/ص ظ/ /. To make it possible for Arab linguists and researcher who work on language sounds, a new alphabet has been designed. This paper is to present Arabic International Phonetic Alphabet (AIPA). AIPA consists of symbols that are based on Arabic orthographic system. It covers all the symbols in IPA in addition to some Arabic sounds which do not have representations in IPA. AIPA has been designed and now is available as Fonts. The AIPA fonts can be used in typing and entering linguistic data to computers. AIPA symbols differ from Arabic orthography in terms of independency; each symbol is not connected to the adjacent symbols. So, an Arabic word such as صوتية is written as: .\صاوتئ2ياه
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