User:Hjuibar3/IPA number

The IPA number is the unique three digit decimal number assigned to every alphabetic and diacritic character of the IPA alphabet. It was introduced as a way to specify every IPA symbol when the proper character is not available. In addition all characters in the extended IPA alphabet and several characters from other transcription systems have been assigned an IPA number. The IPA number has largely been made obsolete by UNICODE and other ASCII based transcription systems such as SAMPA.