Slash (punctuation)
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The slash is a slanting line punctuation mark, /. It is also known as a stroke or solidus, a forward slash and several other historical or technical names. Once used as the equivalent of the modern pe
Sign in Kisoro with prices in Ugandan shillings; note the use of the '/=' notation.
The International Phonetic Alphabet is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association, starting in the late 19t
Slash (punctuation)
…A pair of slashes (as "slants") are used in the transcription of speech to enclose pronunciations (i.e., phonetic transcriptions). For example, the IPA transcription of the English pronunciation of "solidus" is written . Properly, slashes mark broad or phonemic transcriptions, whereas narrow, allophonic…
![X-ray photos show the sounds [i, u, a, ɑ].](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Cardinal_vowels-Jones_x-ray.jpg/500px-Cardinal_vowels-Jones_x-ray.jpg)
X-ray photos show the sounds [i, u, a, ɑ].