| - [Gemination](#gemination) | - [Gemination](#gemination) | ||||
| - [Manner of Articulation](#manner-of-articulation) | - [Manner of Articulation](#manner-of-articulation) | ||||
| - [Vowels](#vowels) | - [Vowels](#vowels) | ||||
| - [Positioning Diacritics](#positioning-diacritics) | |||||
| - [Diacritics](#diacritics) | |||||
| - [Articulation](#articulation) | |||||
| - [Features](#features) | - [Features](#features) | ||||
| - [Air Flow](#air-flow) | - [Air Flow](#air-flow) | ||||
| - [Phonation](#phonation) | - [Phonation](#phonation) | ||||
| distinction is not needed to classify these vowels, so is not included in the | distinction is not needed to classify these vowels, so is not included in the | ||||
| above table. | above table. | ||||
| ## Positioning Diacritics | |||||
| The following IPA diacritics are only used by eSpeak NG to fill out positions | |||||
| in the IPA consonant and vowel charts. As such those phonemes are transcribed | |||||
| according to the features at that position, not using the features at the | |||||
| location of the base phoneme with a feature for each of the positioning | |||||
| diacritics. | |||||
| | Symbol | Name | | |||||
| |--------|-----------------| | |||||
| | ◌̟ | advanced | | |||||
| | ◌̠ | retracted | | |||||
| | ◌̈ | centralized | | |||||
| | ◌̽ | mid-centralized | | |||||
| | ◌̝ | raised | | |||||
| | ◌̞ | lowered | | |||||
| ## Diacritics | |||||
| ### Articulation | |||||
| | Feature | Symbol | Name | | |||||
| |---------|--------|-----------------| | |||||
| | `lgl` | ◌̼ | linguolabial | | |||||
| | | ◌̪ | dental | | |||||
| | `apc` | ◌̺ | apical | | |||||
| | `lmn` | ◌̻ | laminal | | |||||
| | | ◌̟ | advanced | | |||||
| | | ◌̠ | retracted | | |||||
| | | ◌̈ | centralized | | |||||
| | | ◌̽ | mid-centralized | | |||||
| | | ◌̝ | raised | | |||||
| | | ◌̞ | lowered | | |||||
| The articulations that do not have a corresponding feature name are recorded | |||||
| using the features of their new location in the consonant or vowel charts, not | |||||
| using the features of the base phoneme. | |||||
| ## Features | ## Features | ||||