From IPA chart for English dialects :

IPA Examples
United States
GA
England
RP
IPA: English Vowels
æ æ lad, bad, cat[1]
ɑ ɑː father
ɒ not, wasp
ɔ ɔː law, caught[2], all, halt, talk
ə ə about
ɨ ɪ English
ɪ ɪ sit
i i city
see
meat
date
day, pain, whey, rein
ɛ ɛ bed[3]
ɝ/ɹ̩ ɜː(ɹ) burn
herd, earth
bird
ɑɹ ɑː(ɹ) arm, car
ʌ ʌ run, won, flood
ʊ ʊ put
hood
u soon, through
ɚ/ɹ̩ ə(ɹ) winner[4]
aɪ,
ʌɪ
my, wise, high
ɔɪ ɔɪ boy, hoist
əʊ no, toe, soap
tow, soul, roll, cold, folk
now, trout
(j)u juː cute, few, dew
ɪɹ ɪə(ɹ) deer, here
ɛɹ eə(ɹ)[5] mare, there, bear
ɔɹ ɔː(ɹ) sort, warm
oɹ, ɔɹ tore, boar, port
ʊɹ ʊə(ɹ)[6] tour
jʊɹ, jʊə(ɹ),
jɔ:(ɹ)
pure, Europe
United States
GA
England
RP
Examples

Notes

  1. ^ Often transcribed /a/ for RP, for example in dictionaries of the Oxford University Press.
  2. ^ See low back merger for more discussion of this vowel in American English.
  3. ^ Often transcribed /e/ for RP, for example in Collins English Dictionary.
  4. ^ Sometimes transcribed for GA as [əɹ], especially in transcriptions that represent both rhotic and non-rhotic pronunciations, as [ə(ɹ)].
  5. ^ Alternative symbols used in British dictionaries are /ɛː/ (Oxford University Press) and /ɛə/.
  6. ^ >Roach, 2004 & 241-243, pp. 21-22, 25-26. Roach notes that many people in England use /ɔːɹ/ for this vowel, but the RP is to distinguish between more /mɔːɹ/ and moor /mʊəɹ/, tore /tɔːɹ/ and tour /tʊəɹ/, pour /pɔːɹ/ and poor /pʊəɹ/.


Coruña is located in Iberia
Coruña
Coruña
Mahón is located in Spain
Mahón
Mahón
Tarifa is located in Spain
Tarifa
Tarifa
Barcelona is located in Spain
Barcelona
Barcelona
Lisboa is located in Spain
Lisboa
Lisboa
Bilbao is located in Spain
Bilbao
Bilbao
Spanish people
Españoles

1st row: Isabella I of CastileFerdinand II of AragonHernán CortésIgnatius LoyolaCharles ITeresa of Ávila
2nd row: CervantesFrancisco GoyaJosé María de PeredaRosalía de CastroPérez GaldósLeopoldo Alas
3rd row: GaudíPicassoDalíJuan Carlos I of SpainAntonio BanderasRafael Nadal

Total population
ethnic Spanish descent
ca. 42 million (2009)
(population of the Hispanosphere: 360 million)
Regions with significant populations
Spain Spain 41,063,259 (2009)[1]
 Argentina 25,000,000 - [2]
 Brazil 15,000,000 [3]
 Mexico 15,000,000 [4][5]
 Chile 9,500,000 [6]
United States United States 354,019 [7]
 Australia 58,271 [8]
 Puerto Rico 83,879 [9]
 Netherlands 18,000 [10]
 Israel 2,100 [11]
 
Languages

Spanish, and other Languages of Spain.

Religion

Predominantly Roman Catholicism (76%)
no religion (19%), see religion in Spain.

Related ethnic groups

Portuguese
other populations of Western Europe, Hispanics.

References

  1. ^ www.ine.es Spanish population 2009
  2. ^ Argentina: Ethnic groups
  3. ^ "Nova pagina 1".
  4. ^ [1]
  5. ^ "Mexico | History, Geography, Facts, & Points of Interest".
  6. ^ "Spanish immigration to Peru".
  7. ^ United States - Selected Population Profile in the United States (Spaniard)". 2007 American Community Survey. United States Census Bureau.
  8. ^ www.censusdata.abs.gov.au Australia: Spanish Ancestry Australian Bureau of Statistics
  9. ^ page 6, Puerto Rican ethnic ancestry. 2.1% identified as Spaniard
  10. ^ "Spaniard | Joshua Project".
  11. ^ "Spaniard | Joshua Project".