The RFE Phonetic Alphabet, named for a journal of philology, the es, label=none,
Revista de Filología Española
The ''Revista de Filología Española'' (English: ''Journal of Spanish Philology'') is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal of philology, dialectology, and linguistics that was established in 1914 with Ramón Menéndez Pidal as founding edito ...
, lit=Review of Spanish Philology (RFE), is a
phonetic alphabet originally developed in 1915 for the
language
Language is a structured system of communication. The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary. Languages are the primary means by which humans communicate, and may be conveyed through a variety of met ...
s and
dialects of
Iberian origin, primarily
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...
. The alphabet was proposed by
Tomás Navarro Tomás and adopted by the es, label=none, Centro de Estudios Históricos, lit=Center of Historical Studies in
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...
for the RFE and by the es, label=none, Instituto de Filología de Buenos Aires, lit=Institute of Philology of Buenos Aires. It is used solely in works based on Hispanic themes, such as the es, label=none, Atlas Lingüístico de la Península Ibérica, lit=Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula (ALPI), as well as phonetics manuals. Additionally, this phonetic alphabet is taught at the universities of
Spanish-speaking countries
The following is a list of countries where Spanish is an official language, plus a number of countries where Spanish or any language closely related to it, is an important or significant language.
Official or national language
Spanish is the of ...
such as
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
.
[Cuétara Priede 2004, p. 46]
Symbols
Sources
* RFE (1915) "Alfabeto fonético de la revista de filología española"; ''Revista de Filología Española'' 2: 374-376.
* Navarro Tomás, Tomás (1966) "El alfabeto fonético de la Revista de Filología Española"; ''Anuario de Letras'' 6: 5-19.
See also
*
Phonetics
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians. ...
*
Phonology
Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...
*
Phonetic transcription
Phonetic transcription (also known as phonetic script or phonetic notation) is the visual representation of speech sounds (or ''phones'') by means of symbols. The most common type of phonetic transcription uses a phonetic alphabet, such as the ...
*
International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic transcription, phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standa ...
*
Phonetic alphabet (disambiguation)
Phonetic alphabet can mean:
* Phonetic transcription system: a system for transcribing the precise sounds of human speech into writing
** International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA): the most widespread such system
** (See :Phonetic alphabets for other ...
References
Bibliography
* Alvar, Manuel; & Mouton, Pilar García. ''Textos Andaluces en Transcription fonética''. Madrid : Editorial Gredos
* Cuétara Priede, Javier. 2004. ''Fonética de la ciudad de México: Aportaciones desde las tecnologías del habla''. México : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
* Face, Timothy L. 2008. ''Guide to the Phonetic Symbols of Spanish''. Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
* García Mouton, Pilar; & Moreno Fernández, Francisco (dir.). 2003. « Alfabeto fonético y otros signos », in ''Atlas Lingüístico (y etnográfico) de Castilla - La Mancha'', Universidad de Alcalá.
* Llisterri, Joaquim. 2012
La Transcription fonética
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
* Navarro Tomás, Tomás. 1915. “Alfabeto fonético ”, in ''Revista de Filología Española'', tomo 2, pp. 374–376.
* Navarro Tomás, Tomás. 1966. “El alfabeto fonético de la Revista de Filología Española”, in ''Anuario de Letras'', tome 6, 1966, pp. 5–19
* Martín Butragueño, Pedro. 2012. ''Fonología variable del español de México''
sección Alfabeto fonético
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* Pop, Sever. ''La dialectologie : aperçu historique et méthodes d'enquêtes linguistiques'', J. Duculot, Louvain, 1950, 2 vol.
volumen 1
volumen 2
External links
* Irabar, Alexander.
''La transcripción fonética: Comentarios y materiales''
Phonetic alphabets
1915 introductions
1915 in Spain
Spanish phonology
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