Topic-044: IPA Resource The North Wind and the Sun Story The homepage of the International Phonetics Association The IPA) https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/ has many very helpful links including links to sound files illustrating the IPA and links to free and professional IPA fonts as well as information about how to join the IPA and get the IPA journal. The IPA also provides various tools for the phonetic study of human languages. One of such resources is The North Wind and the Sun story. In order to create a uniform system for the description of the sounds of languages, this is a recommended text for transcription (both narrow and broad, especially for publishing the IPA illustrations of languages in the IPA journal. The story is given in the next topic.