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Place of Birth: Venice, Venetian Province, Italy
About Luciano Canepari
- Luciano Canepari (Italian pronunciation: [lu't?a?no kane'pa?ri]; born 19 January 1947 in Venice) is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Venice.
- He received his academic training at that university.
- He developed a phonetic transcription system called canIPA [ka'ni?pa], based on the official IPA.
- The canIPA consists of 500 basic, 300 complementary and 200 supplementary symbols.
- 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, but is occasionally seen elsewhere.
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