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{{Information page|H:IIPA|H:IPAI}}
[[File:IPA inserts screenshot.png|right|thumb|240px|You can insert letters and glyphs from IPA and other systems from a [[Input method editor|pseudo-keyboard]] at bottom of any edit window. Only a handful of these special letters are needed for transcribing English.]]
This is an '''introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet''' ('''[[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]''') for English-speaking Wikipedians. Its purpose is to explain the IPA's basic principles to English speakers. IPA clearly and unambiguously indicates how a word or name actually sounds with one letter for each sound. Wikipedia uses IPA because it's the global standard used by professionals and the only system used in most
IPA's most daunting feature is that it has discrete [[letter (alphabet)|letters]] for almost all of the distinctive sounds found in the world's languages. (See [[International Phonetic Alphabet#Letters]].) Fortunately, using the IPA for English requires learning only the following small subset of them:
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