Alternative form of International Phonetic Alphabet

A standardized set of symbols for representing the sounds of human speech.

The ICAO spelling alphabet.

The ICAO radiotelephony spelling alphabet of the International Civil Aviation Organization. This alphabet assigns names to letters of the alphabet for clearer enunciation (and for the same reason pronounces the numeral 9 as "niner"):

A group of words that are used to identify the letters of an alphabet.

An abjad of twenty-plus acrophonic glyphs, found in Levantine texts of the Late Bronze Age (from ca. the 15th century B.C.E.), by convention taken to last until a cut-off date of 1050 B.C.E., after which it is called Phoenician.

plural of phonetic spelling alphabet