英语的48个音标表有元音、辅音、双元音等。
元音（20个）。
长元音 /ɑ:/ /ɔ:/ / ɜ:/ /i:/ /U:/。
短元音 / ʌ/ /ɒ/ /ə/ /ɪ/ /ʊ/ /e/ /æ/。
/eɪ/ /aɪ/ /ɔɪ/。
双元音 /ɪə/ /eə/ /ʊə/。
/əʊ/ /aʊ/。
辅音（28个）。
轻辅音 /p/ / t/ / k/ /f/ /θ/ /s/。
浊辅音 /b/ /d/ /g/ /v/ /ð/ /z/。
轻辅音 /ʃ/ / h/ /ts/ /tʃ/ /tr/。
浊辅音 /ʒ/ / r/ /dz/ /dʒ/ /dr/。
鼻音 /m/ /n/ /ŋ/。
半元音 / j/ / w/。
边音 / ǀ/。
英语音标及字母组合对照：
1、元音：
1) [i:] 字母组合：ee ea e ie ei （eo ey i）.
three tree green sheep meet beef see seek.
eat tea meat leave lead teacher team mean speak clean please.
he she me.
piece receive ceiling.
2) [ I ]发音字母i y e ui u a.
sit picture it is list six mix fix fit pig big build miss.
myth many twenty happy dictionary.
defect decide delicious.
3) [ æ ] 发音字母a.
bag hand and ant happy hat map mad bad black back glad flag shall man.
4) [e] 字母组合ea e a （ue,u,ie,ai,ei,ay）.
head bread pleasure.
elephant electric remember sell shell lesson better bed desk hotel yes.
many any.
5) [ε:] 字母组合ir ur ear er or.
girl shirt skirt thirty thirteen third bird.
turn burn murder nurse turtle Thursday burger.
learn earn earth heard.
term her nerd serve.
work worm work world.
6) [ε] 字母组合er or ou ar o a e u.
teacher leader remember player speaker farmer powder.
doctor actor mayor author tractor.
delicious gracious pleasure.
familiar collar dollar.
together tomorrow today shallop lesson Washington control polite.
around account ago elephant manta banana Canada Japan china.
men listen.
famulus Saturday.
7) [a:] 字母组合ar a.
car farm card arm garden.
fast class last glass plant aunt calm.
8) [ ʌ ] 发音字母u o ou oo.
up supper lunch fun gun hunt cup bus.
come mother dose brother love above.
trouble rough flourish.
blood flood.
9) [ɔ: ]字母组合al or au our ar.
small wall talk tall hall ball call walk.
short more lord horse for forty sport door floor store.
author caught autumn.
four mourn court bought.
warm quarrel quarter.
10) [ ɔ ] ([ɒ])发音字母o a ou.
hot lost lot fox box mop hop loss collar not.
want wash watch.
11) [u:] 字母组合oo o u.
food moon room gloom broom doom goose tooth.
shoe do two.
true truth blue full prude.
12) [u] 字母组合oo ou u o.
look good foot book wood.
should could.
put full bull pull push.
woman wolf.
13) [ei] 发音字母a ay ea ai ey.
name cake late gate plane April.
play say may way.
great break.
rain paint plain.
they grey.
14) [ai] 发音字母i y.
bike fine find die nine light night high.
my try fly eye.
15) [au] 字母组合ou ow.
house out flour ground account count sound loud around mouse.
flower down now cow how town.
16) [εu] 发音字母o ow oa.
home cold go no phone host ghost.
know low below grow blow show flow.
boat coat goal.
17) [ ɔɪ ] 字母组合oy oi.
boy toy joy.
oil soil voice choice.
18) [iε] 字母组合eer ear.
beer deer.
ear near.
here fierce idea.
19) [ ɛə ] ([eə])字母组合ear air ere.
pear bear.
chair air fair.
there where.
care.
20) [uε] [auə]字母组合our ower.
hour tour.
flower shower.
英语：
英语（English）是印欧语系-日耳曼语族下的语言，由26个字母组成，是欧盟以及许多国际组织以及英联邦国家的官方语言，亦是世界上使用最广泛的语言。
它诞生于日德兰半岛和莱茵河流域，通过英国的殖民活动传播到了世界各地，后因英美两国经济、军事和政治的世界领先地位而成为一种国际语言。
古英语受低地日耳曼语影响很大，比如动词，基本词汇，发音，复合词结构，形态变化很复杂，但是与现代的标准德语还是有很大的区别。现代英语并非起源或演变自罗曼语族亦或是法语，但是数万现代英语词汇，很大一部分来自法语，约5万英语词汇与法语接近甚至是完全相同，现代英语和多数现代欧洲语言都改用字母拼写。