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SAMPA

/ˈsæmpə/

SAMPA proper noun: an alphabet based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), but using only 7-bit ASCII characters, to work around text encoding problems before the introduction of Unicode.

Proper noun (1)

SAMPA

  1. An alphabet based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), but using only 7-bit ASCII characters, to work around text encoding problems before the introduction of Unicode.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Sampa

Sampa

  1. Nickname for São Paulo: a municipality, the state capital of São Paulo State, Brazil
    • This is Sampa my friend; anything can happen.

Origin of SAMPA

Acronym of Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet.

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Sampa.

Words formed from SAMPA

Words that rhyme with SAMPA

Questions about SAMPA

What does SAMPA mean?
SAMPA means an alphabet based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), but using only 7-bit ASCII characters, to work around text encoding problems before the introduction of Unicode.
What part of speech is SAMPA?
SAMPA is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce SAMPA?
SAMPA is pronounced /ˈsæmpə/.

Words near SAMPA in the dictionary

  1. Samoyedic
  2. Samoyedologist
  3. Samoyedologists
  4. samoyeds
  5. samp
  6. SAMPA
  7. Sampaga
  8. sampaguita
  9. Sampaio
  10. Sampaios
  11. sampaloc

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: SAMPA (page history and authors); Sampa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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