Choose the correct phonetic symbol for the medial sound of the word ‘machine’.

International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA): An alphabet used to accurately represent the pronunciation of languages. IPA helps in improving language pronunciation and feeling more confident speaking in the language.

Key Points

• Aim of the IPA is to provide a unique symbol for each distinctive sound in a language i.e. every sound, or phoneme, that serves to distinguish one word from another.
• The IPA is designed to represent only those qualities of speech that are part of oral languages like phones, phonemes, and intonations.
• Language like English has limited sound to decode the words so we lack good pronunciations, phonetic symbols help in decoding words and pronouncing it correctly. 

Hence, from the above-mentioned table, it becomes clear that phonetic symbol /ʃ/ for the medial sound of the word ‘machine’