Phonetic symbols: vowels

To draw phonetic symbols for vowels in the Picture window or in the TextGridEditor, make sure that you have installed the Charis and/or Doulos SIL font, for instance from `sil.org` or from `praat.org`. You can either type the symbols directly (if your computer has an input method for them), or use the backslash sequences in the following table.

Other vowel symbols are:

  ɚ \sr (schwa with right hook): rhotacized schwa

Not available in EPS files (i.e. only publishable with copy-paste or with PDF files):

  ɿ \id syllabic dental approximant
  ʅ \ir syllabic retroflex (or apico-postalveolar) approximant

## How to remember the codes

For most of the codes, the first letter tells you the most similar letter of the English alphabet. The second letter can be t (turned), c (capital), s (script), r (reversed), - (barred or retracted), or / (slashed). One symbol (ɛ) is a phonetic version of a Greek letter. The codes for ə, ɤ, ʊ and ɞ are abbreviations for schwa, ram's horn, horseshoe, and kidney bean.

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