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Ini'tial Teach'ing Al"phabet
a writing system based on an expanded English alphabet, consisting of 43 characters representing different phonemes of spoken English, used for teaching beginners to read.
Abbr.: I.T.A., i.t.a. Also called
augmented roman. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.