Luciano Canepari

Luciano Canepari (; born 19 January 1947) is an Italian linguist. Canepari was a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Venice, where he received his academic training.

He developed a phonetic transcription system called canIPA , based on the official IPA. The canIPA consists of 500 basic, 300 complementary and 200 supplementary symbols, a few of which are encoded in Unicode. It is a work in progress, intended to permit the transcription of all world languages in more exact detail than the official IPA. It has seen little use apart from its inventor or his co-authors.

canIPA

Canepari developed a phonetic alphabet called canIPA. In the works he has authored, both IPA and canIPA are shown, with the IPA sometimes labeled as offIPA (as in "official IPA"; in his works in Italian, uffIPA "ufficiale"). The canIPA has many unfamiliar rows and columns not in the IPA. The symbols and classification within canIPA have been altered multiple times throughout Canepari's work, and a large sum of the symbols have no equivalent in Unicode; they therefore cannot be directly displayed here.