The NATO phonetic alphabet:

Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India
Juliet Kilo Lima Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo
Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu

ITU version: Alfa Juliett X-ray


Phonetic alphabets

also Morse code mnemonics

Phonetic alphabets, in the sense used here, are also known as radio, telephone, spelling alphabets. They are used in aviation and by the military, police, radio amateurs and others.

Full collection of 18 February 2007 (1500 lines, 42k). Recent changes are summarised here.

Brief collection (100 lines).

The Able Baker story | Silly alphabets | Code Talkers

Phonetics elsewhere

Fuat Baran's copy of my collection at Columbia. Copy at Vienna.

US Army | US Navy alphabets and flags | US Navy | US Marines | Canada

NATO phonetic alphabet at Wikipedia ( mobile ), BBC h2g2.

Stephen Phillips's phonetic alphabets (and Morse Code).

An aviation page about the ITU alphabet (with sounds).
Alphabet with sounds.

ITU for Unaone Bissotwo (and ITU alphabet). Also here. Also here.

FAA alphabet | ICAO alphabet

Alpha Bravo Yankee Zulu - a programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 7th April 2006, to mark the 50th anniversary.

About John Alcorn's book (QZ codes, phonetics, Morse etc.). Or start here. Or try this address.

DX phonetics (Yokohama Zanzibar).

Police phonetics in Pittsburgh, by Alex Rudnicky.

Daniel Meyers' table.

History of German alphabet.
German WW2 alphabet.
More about German.
German alphabet with sounds.
German alphabet at Wikipedia.
Funkalphabet at Wikipedia.

Alphabets d'e'pellation.
Les Alphabets Phone'tiques.
French numbers.
French Scrabble alphabet and Morse code mnemonics.

Dutch alphabet at Wikipedia.

Morse Code Mnemonics at Wikipedia. Mnemonics for French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Greek, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Hebrew.

Morse code (Dutch mnemonics). Also here. Also Czech.

Czech alphabet.
Slovenian alphabet.

Saratov for Russian Morse code, the alphabet generally and Gagarin. Or try here. Sounds are being added (.wav).

Swedish phonetics, including digits.
Swedish phonetics, including digits.
Wikipedia.

Page by Anders Bergström for Swedish dialects (Vamhus and Gotlandish).

Japanese phonetics at Wikipedia.

Wikipedia pages for French, French, Dutch, Czech, Slovak, Turkish, Turkish, Turkish, Finnish, Portuguese, Serbian, Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Esperanto.

About spelling in Esperanto. And there's this.

John Higgins' page (for silent alphabet). Silly alphabet by Jamie Blustein.

Peripheral links

Morse code. Learning Morse.
About diacritics (Wells) | sci.lang FAQ with maps
ISO 8859 character sets (and more) ( mirror)
Unicode tests | Test of WGL4 (mini Unicode).
Language codes (en, fr, de, zh).

For phonetic symbols laɪk ðɪs see Wells or Wikipedia.


Wordlists

also word/letter frequency, parts of speech, stress, pronunciations;
various languages

UK English wordlist with frequency classification, version 1.01 (zip, 200k). 57000 words. No proper names. Includes hyphenated words. Intended to be suitable for checking spelling.

The top 1000 words in UK English, based on classic novels and Rosengren's modified frequency.

Letter frequency rankings for various languages.

Basic English, core vocabulary and word frequencies (newsgroup articles, 600 lines). Basic stands for British American Scientific International Commercial, apparently.

Wordlists elsewhere

Public domain wordlists from the Moby lexicon project at Sheffield. There is part of speech information. Moby wordlists at Gutenberg. Moby wordlists at Oxford.

Frequency info from the British National Corpus (or here) at Brighton, by Adam Kilgarriff. There is part of speech information. BNC materials at Lancaster.

Corpus links | Corpus links

UK English wordlist for OpenOffice. Includes hyphenated words and words with accents. 92000 words plus proper names. Or try here.

Free Dictionaries Project by Zdenek Broz, for Universal Dictionary and collections of links.

Links about German.

Top words in German, English, French and Dutch.

Top 1000 words with pronunciations (MP3).
Top 1000 words on the net.

XML dictionaries.

Carnegie Mellon. Comprehensive info on pronunciations and stresses (dict); also plain wordlist (lex). See also CMU page. Or try here.

A notable collection of wordlists for various languages at Oxford.

Wordlists at Finland, Berlin, Vaasa (Finland).

Wordlists at COTSE | Wordlists at COTSE

List of links by Jim Shook.

English wordlists for the Scrabble/crossword community.

National Puzzlers' League. Note particularly ENABLE and UK Cryptics. The latter includes hyphenated words, words with accents and phrases. (Solve -> wordlists).

The Online Plain Text English Dictionary.

FreeDict for translation wordlists.
Stardict.

Translation dictionaries at Majstro.

Corpus links at Neuchatel.

Lemmatised French wordlist.
French wordlists.

About dictionaries for ispell; also here.

yawl wordlist.

Wordlists at Sourceforge.
Wordlists at SCOWL with spelling corrector.

English wordlist at SIL.

Basic English | Basic English

Dolch Basic Words List.

David Zimmer's links about letter frequency.
Letter frequencies in COD9 headwords.

Letter frequencies for Arabic. Arabic word frequency.

Perseus for vocabulary lists for Latin and Greek.

Hellenic National Corpus.

Russian corpus.

Word counts in Russian media.

Dave Fawthrop's FAQ on wordlists.
Dave Fawthrop's FAQ on wordlists.

Peripheral links

WordNet - lexical database. EuroWordNet.
Online dictionaries.
Onelook - dictionary search.
Anna Mazzoldi's stuff (for translation dictionaries).
British National Corpus - can search for word or phrase.
Names from the US census.
Links to various resources at the alt.usage.english site.
About vocabulary and language learning.
UsingEnglish (irregular verbs, phrasal verbs).
Greek Lexicon Project | Text Encoding Initiative

Zipf's law.
Zipf's law bibliography.


Online texts

Digital Librarian - lots of links.
Links at SIL.

Texts at Athena (English, French and other).
Texts in English (Project Gutenberg).
Texts in English (Project Gutenberg). See Browse Catalog for a list of other languages.
Online Books Page | Books Online | The Online Literature Library
The Literature Network | Read Print | Bibliomania | The Free Library | Literature Post
Adelaide.
Virginia. Virginia. Text collections at Virginia.
Oxford Text Archive - some free texts.
Wikisource.
Underground - a recent novel, in ISO-Latin-1.
Internet Public Library.
Children's literature | Children's stories
French texts at ABU.
Texts in German.
Russian ( read about ) | Russian (OREL) | Russian | Russian | Russian (links) | Skazki
Ukrainian.
Hawaiian.
Esperanto | Esperanto

HowTo Books.
Rosetta Project.


And finally

Taught languages in various countries, by Hendrik Biebeler, posted to sci.lang on 27th July 2001.

And now there's this (Word).


Brian Kelk
Quantum Theory makes equal sense to all observers -- as long as there aren't any.