SAMPA
(Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet)

SAMPA		IPA		Unicode
Vowels
A	65	script a   	0251, [ ɑ ]	open back unrounded, Cardinal 5, Eng. start
{	123	æ ligature	00E6, [ æ ]	near-open front unrounded, Eng. trap
6	54	turned a        0250, [ ɐ ]	open schwa, Ger. besser
Q	81	turned script a 0252, [ ɒ ]	open back rounded, Eng. lot
E	69	epsilon         025B, [ ɛ ]	open-mid front unrounded, C3, Fr. même
@	64	turned e        0259, [ ə ]	schwa, Eng. banana
3	51	rev. epsilon    025C, [ ɜ ]	long mid central, Eng. nurse
I	73	small cap I	026A, [ ɪ ]	lax close front unrounded, Eng. kit
O	79	turned c        0254, [ ɔ ]	open-mid back rounded, Eng. thought
2	50	ø       	00F8, [ ø ]	close-mid front rounded, Fr. deux
9	57	oe ligature     0153, [ œ ]	open-mid front rounded, Fr. neuf
&	38	s.c. OE lig.    0276, [ ɶ ]	open front rounded
U	85	upsilon         028A, [ ʊ ]	lax close back rounded, Eng. foot
}	125	barred u        0289, [ ʉ ]	close central rounded, Swedish sju
V	86	turned v        028C, [ ʌ ]	open-mid back unrounded, Eng. strut
Y	89	small cap Y     028F, [ ʏ ]	lax [y], Ger. hübsch

Consonants
B	66	beta            03B2, [ β ]	voiced bilabial fricative, Sp. cabo
C	67	ç, c-cedilla	00E7, [ ç ]	voiceless palatal fricative, Ger. ich
D	68	ð, eth		00F0, [ ð ]	voiced dental fricative, Eng. then
G	71	gamma           0263, [ ɣ ]	voiced velar fricative, Sp. fuego
L	76	turned y        028E, [ ʎ ]	palatal lateral, It. famiglia
J	74	left-tail n     0272, [ ɲ ]	palatal nasal, Sp. año
N	78	eng             014B, [ ŋ ]	velar nasal, Eng. thing
R	82	inv. s.c. R     0281, [ ʁ ]	vd. uvular fric. or trill, Fr. roi
S	83	esh             0283, [ ʃ ]	voiceless palatoalveolar fricative, Eng. ship
T	84	theta           03B8, [ θ ]	voiceless dental fricative, Eng. thin
H	72	turned h        0265, [ ɥ ]	labial-palatal semivowel, Fr. huit
Z	90	ezh (yogh)      0292, [ ʒ ]	vd. palatoalveolar fric., Eng. measure
?	63	dotless ?       0294, [ ʔ ]	glottal stop, Ger. Verein, also Danish stød

Length, stress and tone marks
:	58	colon           02D0, [ ː ]	length mark
"	34	vertical stroke 02C8, [ ˈ ]	primary stress
%	37	low vert. str.  02CC, [ ˌ ]	secondary stress
`	96	(see note)	      		falling tone
'	39	(see note)			rising tone
Note: The SAMPA tone mark recommendations were based on the IPA as it was up to 1989-90. Since then, however, the IPA has changed its symbols for falling and rising tones. These SAMPA tone marks may now be considered obsolete, having in practice been superseded by the SAMPROSA proposals.

Diacritics
O~	126	superior tilde  0303, [ õ ]	nasalization, Fr. bon
=n	60	inferior stroke 0329, [ n̩ ]	syllabic consonant, Eng. garden