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SAMPA¹

  • /ˈsæmpə/

Rhymes with -æmpə

Where it comes from

Acronym of Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet.

proper noun

  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.

Sampa²

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Sampa.

proper noun

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

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MLA

"SAMPA." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sampa. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

SAMPA. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sampa

Chicago

"SAMPA." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sampa.

BibTeX
@misc{sampa_2026,
  title = {SAMPA},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sampa},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}