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SAMPA

Pronunciation: /ˈsæmpə/

The English word “SAMPA” has 1 meaning listed here.

proper noun

  1. An alphabet based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), but using only 7-bit ASCII characters, to work around text encoding problems before the introduction of Unicode.

Etymology

Acronym of Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet.

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