![]() It is now very widely used by all types of "professional communicators" including air traffic control, the police and other emergency services, shipping, etc and in all types of business. They had to make sure that each chosen word sounded different to the others, and was easily pronounceable by speakers of all the European languages, not just in English. ![]() It is called the "NATO" alphabet because it was standardised by the NATO member countries back in the 1950s to allow accurate exchange of radio messages between air, naval and army forces of all the NATO member nations. Numbers are pronounced as normal, except often 9 is pronounced " Niner" so it doesn't get confused with 5. The chart and table below introduces their position, pronunciation, name and the NATO phonetic alphabet. The standard "NATO" phonetic alphabet (actually the International Radio-Telephony Spelling Alphabet) is:Īlfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu. There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. The "NATO" / ICAO / ITU Phonetic Alphabet / Army Alphabet / Police Alphabet Using the phonetic alphabet to spell out names, locations and so on makes accurately understanding messages a lot easier, because many letters can be easily confused when heard over a crackly radio link (B, C, D, P, T and M, N and F, S, etc). THE International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is the standardised system of phonetic notation to represent the sounds of the oral language. ![]() Spelling alphabet english registration#When you are spelling out a name, location, code, registration number, postcode etc, over a noisy or faint radio or phone link, it is easy for letters and numbers to be misheard. ![]() Standard Phonetic Alphabets Used For Radio & Telephone Using Phonetic Alphabets Helps Convey Information Accurately Over Walkie-Talkie Radio ![]()
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