International Korean Phonetic Alphabet - Its Application in MS Word
Visible Speech", which can be shared by all human beings irrespective of racial or
linguistic background.
1.5 The IKPA chart is printed in Malsori "Speech Sounds", the Journal of the
Korean Society of Phonetic Sciences and Speech Technology" together with an IKPA
illustration of world languages including Korean, English, French, Japanese, Chinese,
Italian, Russian, Polish etc. And in the "Manual of IPA", a Korean sample text is also
illustrated in IKPA symbols. It has also been used in books and articles on phonetics
and speech pathology.
1.6 Just like IPA, IKPA symbols can be utilized in many areas including
phonetics, linguistics, language teaching, speech therapy, speech sciences, dialect
studies, speech training, diction, singing, etc.
1.7 There is another important area in which the IKPA symbols can be utilized,
that is, as an alphabet for languages having no writing system. In 1996, Lee designed an
IKPA-based writing system for Lahu, which is spoken by a hill tribe in northern
Thailand, Myanmar and China.
In the IKPA chart below (see Table 1 attached,) IKPA symbol is matched by an
IPA counterpart.
II. The IKPA Font and its Application in Word Processing
2.1 The IKPA fonts were created for the first time in 1988 by Mr. Il-jin Jeong, a
former postgraduate student of mine in the Department of Linguistics, Seoul National
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