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| Prelude | |
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| A Tribute to WFOS-FM | |
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| Other Acknowledgments | |
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| Overture | |
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| Why This Guide? | |
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| The Old "Native vs. Anglicized" Controversy | |
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| Caveat Dictor | |
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| Structure of the Book | |
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| Suggestions for Using The Book | |
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| Limitations | |
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| Transcription and other Basics | |
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| Transcription Conventions | |
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| Letter vs. Sound | |
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| Options and Alternatives | |
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| Which Phonetic Transcription? | |
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| Is the Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty? | |
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| Sound Symbols | |
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| Vowels | |
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| Consonants | |
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| How to Read the Lists | |
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| On Alphabetical Order | |
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| What's in a Name? | |
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| People and Places | |
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| Of Firsts and Lasts | |
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| Language, Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics | |
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| More on Slash Designations | |
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| Alphabetical List | |
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| List by Language | |
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| Armenian | |
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| Bulgarian | |
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| Chinese | |
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| Czech and the Hacek Languages (Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Latvian) | |
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| Note on Last Names | |
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| Dutch and Flemish | |
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| English | |
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| Finnish and Estonian | |
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| French | |
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| German | |
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| Greek | |
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| Hungarian | |
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| Italian | |
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| Japanese | |
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| Korean | |
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| Latin | |
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| Polish | |
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| Note on Polish Last Names | |
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| Portuguese | |
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| Romanian | |
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| Russian and Ukrainian | |
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| Scandinavian (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) | |
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| Spanish | |
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| Five Interludes for Tongue and Larynx | |
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| The Voicing Principle | |
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| Two Kinds of Consonants | |
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| Consonants on Paper and in the Mouth | |
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| Some Terminology for Types of Sounds | |
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| So-called Hard and Soft Consonants | |
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| Flap, Catch, Shift | |
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| Doubles and Dub Bulls | |
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| Consonant Cluster Reprise | |
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| Vowels in "General European" vs. English | |
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| Vowels in the Mouth | |
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| Other Vowel Sounds | |
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| Of Diphthongs and Digraphs | |
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| "Long" and "Short" | |
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| "Broad" and "Flat" | |
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| Shwa | |
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| Stress Management | |
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| Hints on Reading Key Signatures | |
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| Letter and Sound in the Languages of Europe and East Asia | |
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| General Remark on Accent Marks and Diacritics | |
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| Romance Languages | |
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| Latin | |
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| Italian | |
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| Romanian | |
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| French | |
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| Portuguese | |
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| Spanish | |
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| Germanic Languages | |
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| English | |
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| German | |
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| Two Notes on Visual Impressions | |
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| Note on Names, Letters, and Immigration | |
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| Voicing Reprise | |
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| Dutch and Flemish | |
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| Scandinavian (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) | |
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| Slavic and Baltic Languages | |
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| On Language, Religion, and Alphabet | |
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| Polish | |
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| The Hacek Languages | |
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| (Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian; Lithuanian, Latvian) | |
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| Russian-Ukrainian-Bulgarian | |
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| A Guide to Russian Last and Middle Names | |
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| Finno-Ugric and Other European Languages | |
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| Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian | |
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| From the Ends of Europe | |
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| Albanian, Greek | |
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| Turkish, Welsh, Irish | |
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| East Asian Languages | |
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| Japanese and Korean | |
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| Japanese Stress and Vowel Skipping | |
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| Chinese | |
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| Coda | |
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| Diacritic Review | |
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| Letter-to-Sound Review | |
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| Sound-to-Letter Review | |
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| The Palatal Challenge | |
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| Finale. Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Names but no phonetics | |
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| Names and phonetics | |
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| General Transcription, Phonetics for Singers, etc. | |
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| Indexes | |