IPA number

Current IPA consonants, and those retired after the Kiel convention, are assigned numbers in the 100 range. The tie-bars used to create affricate consonants are assigned numbers in the 400 and 500 ranges. ==200: retired and non-IPA consonants==

The 200 range is mostly retired IPA consonants, though it includes several letters of the Americanist Phonetic Alphabet that are sometimes used alongside the IPA. A few superscript IPA letters, including a single vowel, have also been assigned numbers in this range. Symbols official until retirement by Kiel in 1989 are numbered upwards from 201; those already retired, or not IPA at all, are numbered downwards from 299. In addition, there is the pre-composed character , the loop-tail (see the main consonant chart above), and the implicit IPA letter . ==300: IPA vowels==

Vowel letters that were official after Kiel were numbered upward from 301. , which was once needed to create with a diacritic, two letters retired at Kiel, , and the three non-rhotic vowels added in the 1993 and 1996 updates to the IPA, , were numbered downward from 399. Pre-composed , present at Kiel, was assigned a number, but later and were not. ==400: non-tone diacritics==

Indicators of tone, stress, intonation and other elements of prosody. Combinations of tone diacritics or letters that were illustrated on the IPA Chart in 1999 are assigned individual numbers, leaving 3 tone diacritics and many, many compound tone letters without assigned numbers. ==600: extIPA==

The symbols of the Extensions to the IPA were numbered sequentially to 683. Several are redundant with other ranges. (The capital Latin letters are not shown here; see the 700 range.) A few letters that were apparently added to extIPA after 1999, such as , were not given numbers either, though they predate , which was added to the regular IPA in 2005 and did receive a number. The symbols added in the 2015 expansion of extIPA were apparently never assigned numbers either. Number 611 is the "balloon" used to encircle unidentified segments. ==700: capital letters==

The capitals of the basic Latin alphabet, A–Z, are assigned the numbers 701 to 726 in order. C 703, F 706, J 710, L 712, V 722 and W 723 are redundant with their extIPA numbers 624, 622, 626, 625, 621, 623, respectively. ==900: transcription delimiters==

Brackets and other punctuation that mark linguistic transcription ==References==