No, it's not a phonemic alphabet. The idea is that it should have a symbol for each phone, i.e. each sound you can make with your mouth. Different languages wi

No, it's not a phonemic alphabet. The idea is that it should have a symbol for each phone, i.e. each sound you can make with your mouth. Different languages will then cluster those phones into different equivalence classes (phonemes), but the standard practice is to pick a representative sound from the equivalence class, and use that as the IPA letter for the phoneme. Allocating a symbol to a phoneme is is odd.