
The Universal Phonetic Alphabet
Just a note on abbreviations: the Universal Phonetic Alphabet is based on the Musa Alphabet (just like the International Phonetic Alphabet is based on the Latin Alphabet). In English, it's abbreviated UPA (pronounced yoo-pee-ay [juw.pʰij.ej] ) when written in the Latin Alphabet, but when written in Musa, it's abbreviated euphonal (pronounced yoo-fone-al [juwfownˈæɫ]), since Musa abbreviates using the first syllables instead of the names of the first letters.