Luciano Canepari

Luciano Canepari (Italian pronunciation: [luˈtʃaːno kaneˈpaːri]; b. 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 [kaˈniːpa], 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.