Americanist Phonetic Alphabet

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The Americanist Phonetic Alphabet (APA, English Americanist Phonetic Alphabet , also North American Phonetic Alphabet or Americanist phonetic notation ) is an extension of the Latin alphabet for the phonetic transcription of spoken languages, which goes back to John Wesley Powell . Unlike the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), it makes greater use of diacritical marks . It is used not only, but primarily, to describe indigenous North American languages .

literature

  • Norris P. McKinney, Carol V. McKinney: An Introduction to Field Phonetics . SIK International Publications, Dallas, Texas 2016, ISBN 978-1-55671-400-9 , pp. 223–228: Appendix B - Americanist Phonetic Alphabet (APA) (complete tabulation of the APA)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John W. Powell: Introduction to the Study of Indian languages, with words, phrases, and sentences to be collected (2nd Ed.), Washington: United States Government Printing Office , 1880