Template:IPA

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Usage

Template:IPA is useful when there are multiple instances of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) on a page. It contains

<span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa">{{{1}}}</span>

This means it specifies a class called "IPA" as a hook for CSS styling and DOM scripting. This allows for assigning specific fonts to display IPA characters. Registered Wikipedia users can specify their own fonts for IPA text by editing their user style sheet, e.g. Special:MyPage/common.css. Users can also edit their global stylesheet (meta:Special:MyPage/global.css), which works across all projects. MediaWiki:Common.css also ensures that links inside IPA transcriptions marked up with this template do not use underlines since these carry special semantics there. For instance, the following code would cause IPA to be displayed in the font Charis SIL:

.IPA {
	font-family: Charis SIL;
}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for this template in articles based on this TemplateData.

TemplateData for IPA

This template ensures proper display of transcriptions using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), especially in older operating systems and browsers. There are related specialized templates that also semi-automatically generate the transcription itself.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Transcription	`1`	including square brackets [...] for phonetic transcriptions or enclosing forward slashes /.../ for phonemic ones	String	required
Language code	`lang`	ISO 639 code of the language being transcribed, will be used in IETF language tag Example en	String	optional

Examples

Placing a phonemic rendering of the word characters in Template:IPA:

{{IPA|/ˈkærəktɚz/|lang=en}}
{{IPA|/[[character|ˈkærəktɚz]]/|lang=en}}

The result will be a span with a class attribute, like this:

<span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA" lang="en-Latn-fonipa">/ˈkærəktɚz/</span>

Which appears in your browser as:

/ˈkærəktɚz/

Without template:IPA:

/ˈkærəktɚz/

These sets may look different if you have a custom font defined for IPA text.

Please place all IPA text into the template, even if it doesn't have any special IPA characters, like this: /mi/. This will allow users to format all examples of IPA text consistently, with their choice of fonts, colours, etc.

Usage of IPA pronunciation templates

Wikipedia offers several templates for proper display of IPA transcriptions.

IPA font

In general, IPA symbols on a page should be enclosed in the {{IPA}} template, which formats the text in an IPA-producing font. If a substantial portion of a page uses IPA, it is customary to post notice of that fact with {{Contains special characters|IPA}}, though each token still requires the {{IPA}} template for proper formatting.

If there are not enough occurrences to warrant a notice, then consider a template that links to an IPA key for the first instance of the IPA on a page or section.

English words

For English words, in a broad, non-regional transcription, as when giving the pronunciation of a key word in an article, use {{IPAc-en}}, which links to Help:IPA/English, a chart of the subset of the IPA that is relevant to English, and automates the conversion to IPA, so that {{IPAc-en|'|w|3:r|d}} appears as /ˈwɜːrd/. This provides mouse-over links to the symbols, and is now the preferred template.

For a specific transcription in a regional variety, use {{IPA-endia}} or {{IPA-all}}.

Non-English words

For words that are not assimilated into English, regional pronunciations of English words, and non-standard English dialects, use templates linking to the more general Help:IPA chart, containing all major IPA symbols:

{{IPA-all}}, appearing as: IPA: [word]. Or:
For specific languages, there may be dedicated IPA keys for standardized transcription. There are several options for their display. The first cell includes the ISO code of the language; the second is the transcription; the third keys an introductory phrase; and the fourth is space for a sound file. Using the French word eau [o] as an example, we have the default format:
- {{IPA-fr|o}} → French pronunciation: [o]
Or the word "pronounced" can be used as the introduction:
- {{IPA-fr|o|pron}} → pronounced [o]
Language name only:
- {{IPA-fr|o|lang}} → French: [o]
"IPA" only:
- {{IPA-fr|o|IPA}} → IPA: [o]
Link only:
- {{IPA-fr|o|}} → [o]
Any of these may be combined with a sound file:
- {{IPA-fr|o|lang|Fr-eau.ogg}} → French: [o] (pulikizgani machemelo)
For the default introductory phrase, however, a placeholder such as “-” is required:
- {{IPA-fr|o|-|Fr-eau.ogg}} → French pronunciation: [o] (pulikizgani machemelo)

Supported languages and templates

Key	Language	Template(s)
Help:IPA/Adyghe	Adyghe	{{IPA-ady}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Afrikaans	Afrikaans	{{IPA-af}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Albanian	Albanian	{{IPA-sq}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Alemannic German	Alemannic German	{{IPA-gsw}} (uses)
	Colonia Tovar dialect	{{IPA-gct}} (uses)
	Swabian German	{{IPA-swg}} (uses)
	Walser German	{{IPA-wae}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Amharic	Amharic	{{IPA-am}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Arabic	Arabic	{{IPA-ar}} (uses), {{IPAc-ar}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Armenian	Armenian	{{IPA-hy}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Assamese	Assamese	{{IPA-as}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Astur-Leonese	Asturian	{{IPA-ast}} (uses)
	Extremaduran	{{IPA-ext}} (uses)
	Leonese	{{IPA-le}} (uses)
	Mirandese	{{IPA-mwl}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Australian languages	Australian Aboriginal languages	{{IPA-aus}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Azerbaijani	Azerbaijani	{{IPA-az}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Basque	Basque	{{IPA-eu}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Belarusian	Belarusian	{{IPA-be}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Bengali	Bengali	{{IPA-bn}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Berber	Berber	{{IPA-ber}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Breton	Breton	{{IPA-br}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Bulgarian	Bulgarian	{{IPA-bg}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Burmese	Burmese	{{IPA-my}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Cantonese	Cantonese	{{IPA-yue}} (uses), {{IPAc-yue}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Catalan	Catalan	{{IPA-ca}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Catalan	Valencian	{{IPA-va}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Colognian	Colognian	{{IPA-ksh}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Corsican	Corsican	{{IPA-co}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Czech	Czech	{{IPA-cs}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Danish	Danish	{{IPA-da}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Dutch	Dutch	{{IPA-nl}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Egyptian Arabic	Egyptian Arabic	{{IPA-arz}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Emilian-Romagnol	Emilian	{{IPA-egl}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Emilian-Romagnol	Romagnol	{{IPA-rgn}} (uses)
Help:IPA/English	English	{{IPAc-en}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Esperanto	Esperanto	{{IPA-eo}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Estonian	Estonian	{{IPA-et}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Fijian	Fijian	{{IPA-fj}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Finnish	Finnish	{{IPA-fi}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Franco-Provençal	Franco-Provençal	{{IPA-frp}} (uses)
Help:IPA/French	French	{{IPA-fr}} (uses), {{IPAc-fr}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Galician	Galician	{{IPA-gl}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Georgian	Georgian	{{IPA-ka}} (uses), {{IPAc-ka}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Greek	Greek	{{IPA-el}} (uses), {{IPA-grc}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Greenlandic	Greenlandic	{{IPA-kl}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Gujarati	Gujarati	{{IPA-gu}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Haitian Creole	Haitian Creole	{{IPA-ht}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Hawaiian	Hawaiian	{{IPA-haw}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Hebrew	Hebrew	{{IPA-he}} (uses), {{IPAc-he}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Hejazi Arabic	Hejazi Arabic	{{IPA-acw}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Hindi and Urdu	Hindustani	{{IPA-hns}} (uses)
	Hindi	{{IPA-hi}} (uses)
	Urdu	{{IPA-ur}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Hmong	Hmong	{{IPA-hmn}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Hungarian	Hungarian	{{IPA-hu}} (uses), {{IPAc-hu}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Icelandic	Icelandic	{{IPA-is}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Igbo	Igbo	{{IPA-ig}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Insular Catalan	Insular Catalan	{{IPA-cadia}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Inuktitut	Inuktitut	{{IPA-iu}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Inupiaq	Inupiaq	{{IPA-ik}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Irish	Irish	{{IPA-ga}} (uses), {{IPAc-ga}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Italian	Italian	{{IPA-it}} (uses), {{IPAc-it}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Italian dialects	Italian dialects	{{IPA-itdia}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Japanese	Japanese	{{IPA-ja}} (uses), {{IPAc-ja}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Kazakh	Kazakh	{{IPA-kk}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Khmer	Khmer	{{IPA-km}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Korean	Korean	{{IPA-ko}} (uses), {{IPAc-ko}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Kurdish	Kurdish	{{IPA-ku}} (uses)
	Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish)	{{IPA-kmr}} (uses)
	Sorani (Central Kurdish)	{{IPA-ckb}} (uses)
	Southern Kurdish	{{IPA-sdh}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Kyrgyz	Kyrgyz	{{IPA-ky}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Lakota	Lakota	{{IPA-lkt}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Lao	Lao	{{IPA-lo}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Latin	Latin	{{IPA-la}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Latvian	Latvian	{{IPA-lv}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Lebanese Arabic	Lebanese Arabic	{{IPA-apc-LB}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Ligurian	Ligurian	{{IPA-lij}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Lithuanian	Lithuanian	{{IPA-lt}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Lombard	Lombard	{{IPA-lmo}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Luxembourgish	Luxembourgish	{{IPA-lb}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Macedonian	Macedonian	{{IPA-mk}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Malagasy	Malagasy	{{IPA-mg}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Malay	Malay	{{IPA-ms}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Malay	Indonesian	{{IPA-id}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Malayalam	Malayalam	{{IPA-ml}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Maltese	Maltese	{{IPA-mt}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Mandarin	Standard Chinese	{{IPA-cmn}} (uses), {{IPAc-cmn}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Manx	Manx	{{IPA-gv}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Māori	Māori	{{IPA-mi}} (uses), {{IPAc-mi}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Marathi	Marathi	{{IPA-mr}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Marshallese	Marshallese	{{IPA-mh}} (uses), {{IPAc-mh}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Mauritian Creole	Mauritian Creole	{{IPA-mfe}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Mayan	Mayan	{{IPA-myn}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Mongolian	Mongolian	{{IPA-mn}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Nahuatl	Nahuatl	{{IPA-nah}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Navajo	Navajo	{{IPA-nv}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Neapolitan	Neapolitan	{{IPA-nap}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Nepali	Nepali	{{IPA-ne}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Nguni	Swazi	{{IPA-ss}} (uses)
	Xhosa	{{IPA-xh}} (uses)
	Zulu	{{IPA-zu}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Northern Thai	Northern Thai	{{IPA-nod}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Norwegian	Norwegian	{{IPA-no}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Occitan	Occitan	{{IPA-oc}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Odia	Odia	{{IPA-or}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Old English	Old English	{{IPA-ang}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Persian	Persian	{{IPA-fa}} (uses)
	Dari	{{IPA-prs}} (uses)
	Tajik	{{IPA-tg}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Piedmontese	Piedmontese	{{IPA-pms}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Polish	Polish	{{IPA-pl}} (uses), {{IPAc-pl}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Portuguese	Portuguese	{{IPA-pt}} (uses), {{IPAc-pt}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Punjabi	Punjabi	{{IPA-pa}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Quechua	Quechua	{{IPA-qu}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Romanian	Romanian	{{IPA-ro}} (uses), {{IPAc-ro}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Romansh	Romansh	{{IPA-rm}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Russian	Russian	{{IPA-ru}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Sanskrit	Sanskrit	{{IPA-sa}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Sardinian	Sardinian	{{IPA-sc}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Scottish Gaelic	Scottish Gaelic	{{IPA-gd}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Serbo-Croatian	Serbo-Croatian	{{IPA-sh}} (uses)
	Croatian	{{IPA-hr}} (uses)
	Serbian	{{IPA-sr}} (uses)
	Bosnian	{{IPA-bs}} (uses)
	Montenegrin	{{IPA-cnr}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Shan and Tai Lue	Shan	{{IPA-shn}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Shan and Tai Lue	Tai Lue	{{IPA-khb}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Sicilian	Sicilian	{{IPA-scn}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Slovak	Slovak	{{IPA-sk}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Slovene	Slovene	{{IPA-sl}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Spanish	Spanish	{{IPA-es}} (uses), {{IPAc-es}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Standard German	German	{{IPA-de}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Swahili	Swahili	{{IPA-sw}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Swedish	Swedish	{{IPA-sv}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Sylheti	Sylheti	{{IPA-syl}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Tagalog	Tagalog	{{IPA-tl}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Taiwanese Hokkien	Taiwanese Hokkien	{{IPA-taiwan}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Tamil	Tamil	{{IPA-ta}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Tatar	Tatar	{{IPA-tt}} (uses), {{IPA-crh}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Telugu	Telugu	{{IPA-te}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Thai	Thai	{{IPA-th}} (uses), {{IPA-sou}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Tibetan	Tibetan	{{IPA-bo}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Tigrinya	Tigrinya	{{IPA-ti}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Tunisian Arabic	Tunisian Arabic	{{IPA-aeb}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Turkish	Turkish	{{IPA-tr}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Turkmen	Turkmen	{{IPA-tk}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Ukrainian	Ukrainian	{{IPA-uk}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Uzbek	Uzbek	{{IPA-uz}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Venetian	Venetian	{{IPA-vec}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Vietnamese	Vietnamese	{{IPA-vi}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Walloon	Walloon	{{IPA-wa}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Welsh	Welsh	{{IPA-cy}} (uses)
Help:IPA/West Frisian	West Frisian	{{IPA-fy}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Yiddish	Yiddish	{{IPA-yi}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Yoruba	Yoruba	{{IPA-yo}} (uses)
Help:IPA/Zhuang	Zhuang	{{IPA-za}} (uses)

Languages without dedicated keys

Templates have been created for languages which do not yet have dedicated key pages. Transcriptions which use these templates will link to Help:IPA for the time being; when a language-specific key is created the templates will be linked accordingly. For example, you can use {{IPA-jv|word}} for Javanese, but for the moment it will link to Help:IPA, producing Javanese pronunciation: [word].

Languages and language extensions (IPA-xx) with links to Help:IPA

{{IPA-ace}} (uses): Acehnese
{{IPA-ae}} (uses): Avestan
{{IPA-aec}} (uses): Saidi Arabic
{{IPA-aer}} (uses): Eastern Arrernte
{{IPA-afb}} (uses): Gulf Arabic
{{IPA-ain}} (uses): Ainu
{{IPA-ak}} (uses): Akan (Fante, Twi)
{{IPA-akk}} (uses): Akkadian
{{IPA-ale}} (uses): Aleut
{{IPA-alg}} (uses): Algonquian (Micmac, Cree)
{{IPA-all}} (uses): (transcriptions not specific to any language, or which have not yet been reassigned)
{{IPA-als}} (uses): Albanian dialects
{{IPA-an}} (uses): Aragonese
{{IPA-arn}} (uses): Mapuche
{{IPA-art}} (uses): artificial (Ido, Tolkien, etc.)
{{IPA-ath}} (uses): Athabaskan (Dene, Navajo)
{{IPA-ay}} (uses): Aymara
{{IPA-azc}} (uses): Uto-Aztecan (Shoshone, Comanche)
{{IPA-ba}} (uses): Bashkir
{{IPA-bar}} (uses): Bavarian
{{IPA-bho}} (uses): Bhojpuri
{{IPA-bi}} (uses): Bislama
{{IPA-bm}} (uses): Manding/Bambara
{{IPA-bodia}} (uses): Bodish
{{IPA-cau}} (uses): (North) Caucasian
{{IPA-cdd}} (uses): Caddoan
{{IPA-cdo}} (uses): Eastern Min
{{IPA-ceb}} (uses): Cebuano
{{IPA-cel}} (uses): Celtic (Brythonic, Gaulish)
{{IPA-ch}} (uses): Chamorro
{{IPA-chr}} (uses): Cherokee
{{IPA-cop}} (uses): Coptic
{{IPA-csb}} (uses): Kashubian
{{IPA-cv}} (uses): Chuvash
{{IPA-dedia}} (uses): German dialects
{{IPA-doi}} (uses): Dogri
{{IPA-dv}} (uses): Dhivehi
{{IPA-dz}} (uses): Dzongkha
{{IPA-ee}} (uses): Gbe (Ewe, Fon)
{{IPA-endia}} (uses): English dialects
{{IPA-enm}} (uses): Middle English
{{IPA-esdia}} (uses): Spanish dialects
{{IPA-fo}} (uses): Faroese
{{IPA-frdia}} (uses): French dialects (Canadian, Metis, Norman)
{{IPA-frr}} (uses): North Frisian
{{IPA-fur}} (uses): Friulian
{{IPA-gag}} (uses): Gagauz
{{IPA-gcr}} (uses): French Guianese Creole
{{IPA-gez}} (uses): Ge'ez
{{IPA-gn}} (uses): Guaraní
{{IPA-gon}} (uses): Gondi
{{IPA-gos}} (uses): Gronings
{{IPA-guc}} (uses): Wayuu
{{IPA-ha}} (uses): Hausa
{{IPA-hak}} (uses): Hakka
{{IPA-hop}} (uses): Hopi
{{IPA-iro}} (uses): Iroquoian (Mohawk, Cherokee)
{{IPA-ium}} (uses): Iu Mien
{{IPA-jv}} (uses): Javanese
{{IPA-kg}} (uses): Kongo
{{IPA-kgg}} (uses): Kusunda
{{IPA-ki}} (uses): Kikuyu
{{IPA-kjq}} (uses): Western Keres
{{IPA-kn}} (uses): Kannada
{{IPA-kok}} (uses): Konkani
{{IPA-ks}} (uses): Kashmiri
{{IPA-ksw}} (uses): S'gaw Karen
{{IPA-kw}} (uses): Cornish
{{IPA-lad}} (uses): Ladino
{{IPA-lg}} (uses): Ganda
{{IPA-li}} (uses): Limburgish
{{IPA-lif}} (uses): Limbu
{{IPA-liv}} (uses): Livonian
{{IPA-lld}} (uses): Ladin
{{IPA-ltc}} (uses): Middle Chinese
{{IPA-lut}} (uses): Lushootseed
{{IPA-lzz}} (uses): Laz
{{IPA-mai}} (uses): Maithili
{{IPA-mak}} (uses): Makasar
{{IPA-maz}} (uses): Central Mazahua
{{IPA-mga}} (uses): Middle Irish
{{IPA-mid}} (uses): Neo-Mandaic
{{IPA-mnc}} (uses): Manchu
{{IPA-mni}} (uses): Meitei
{{IPA-mnw}} (uses): Mon
{{IPA-moh}} (uses): Mohawk
{{IPA-mos}} (uses): Mossi/Gurunsi
{{IPA-mus}} (uses): Muskogean (Chickasaw, Creek)
{{IPA-na}} (uses): Nauruan
{{IPA-nan}} (uses): Minnan/Taiwanese
{{IPA-nci}} (uses): Classical Nahuatl
{{IPA-nds}} (uses): Low Saxon
{{IPA-new}} (uses): Newar
{{IPA-non}} (uses): Old Norse
{{IPA-nrf}} (uses): Norman
{{IPA-nus}} (uses): Nuer
{{IPA-ny}} (uses): Chewa
{{IPA-oax}} (uses): Oaxaca (Zapotec, Mixe, Otomi)
{{IPA-om}} (uses): Oromo
{{IPA-os}} (uses): Ossetian
{{IPA-pap}} (uses): Papiamento
{{IPA-pcd}} (uses): Picard
{{IPA-pcm}} (uses): Nigerian Pidgin
{{IPA-pdc}} (uses): Pennsylvania German
{{IPA-pi}} (uses): Pali (linked to Sanskrit)
{{IPA-pjt}} (uses): Pitjantjatjara
{{IPA-poly}} (uses): (other) Polynesian
{{IPA-ps}} (uses): Pashto
{{IPA-ptdia}} (uses): Portuguese dialects
{{IPA-qya}} (uses): Quenya
{{IPA-rej}} (uses): Rejang
{{IPA-rom}} (uses): Romani
{{IPA-rw}} (uses): Rwanda-Rundi
{{IPA-ryu}} (uses): Okinawan langs
{{IPA-sal}} (uses): Salish & NW Coast
{{IPA-sco}} (uses): Scots
{{IPA-sd}} (uses): Sindhi
{{IPA-se}} (uses): Northern Sami
{{IPA-sec}} (uses): Sechelt
{{IPA-sei}} (uses): Seri
{{IPA-sem}} (uses): (ancient) Semitic, Egyptian
{{IPA-sga}} (uses): Old Irish
{{IPA-si}} (uses): Sinhala
{{IPA-sio}} (uses): Siouan (Omaha, Lakota)
{{IPA-sjn}} (uses): Sindarin
{{IPA-sla}} (uses): Slavic (old Slavic, Silesian, Sorbian)
{{IPA-sm}} (uses): Samoan
{{IPA-sma}} (uses): Southern Sami
{{IPA-smj}} (uses): Lule Sami
{{IPA-sn}} (uses): Shona
{{IPA-so}} (uses): Somali
{{IPA-srn}} (uses): Sranan Tongo
{{IPA-st}} (uses): Sotho
{{IPA-stq}} (uses): Saterland Frisian
{{IPA-su}} (uses): Sundanese
{{IPA-sux}} (uses): Sumerian
{{IPA-sva}} (uses): Svan
{{IPA-syc}} (uses): Classical Syriac
{{IPA-syr}} (uses): Syriac
{{IPA-tet}} (uses): Tetum
{{IPA-tew}} (uses): Tewa
{{IPA-tix}} (uses): Southern Tiwa
{{IPA-tlh}} (uses): Klingon
{{IPA-tn}} (uses): Tswana
{{IPA-to}} (uses): Tongan
{{IPA-ts}} (uses): Tsonga
{{IPA-tum}} (uses): Tumbuka
{{IPA-ty}} (uses): Tahitian
{{IPA-tyv}} (uses): Tuvan
{{IPA-tzl}} (uses): Talossan
{{IPA-ug}} (uses): Uyghur
{{IPA-ve}} (uses): Venda
{{IPA-vls}} (uses): West Flemish
{{IPA-wad}} (uses): Wandamen
{{IPA-wbp}} (uses): Warlpiri
{{IPA-wo}} (uses): Wolof
{{IPA-wuu}} (uses): Wu Chinese
{{IPA-xmf}} (uses): Mingrelian
{{IPA-zun}} (uses): Zuni

Conversion to IPA

The template {{x2i}} takes X-SAMPA symbols (ASCII equivalents of IPA symbols) and converts them to IPA.

Other language-specific templates allow you to enter ordinary letters (or conventional ASCII equivalents) in place of IPA characters, and they will be automatically converted to the phonetic symbols that are used to transcribe the language. The templates that are currently available are shown below, with examples:

Language	Template	Code example	Result
Arabic	{{IPAc-ar}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-ar\|2\|a\|l\|l\|u\|gh\|a\|t_\|a\|l\|3\|a\|r\|a\|b\|i\|y\|y\|a}}`	[ʔalluɣat‿alʕarabijja]
Cantonese	{{IPAc-yue}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-yue\|h\|ung\|2\|.\|z\|i\|2}}`	[hoŋ˧˥.tsiː˧˥]
English	{{IPAc-en}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-en\|,\|{\|l\|@\|'\|b\|{\|m\|@}}`	/ˌæləˈbæmə/
French	{{IPAc-fr}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-fr\|j\|@\|-\|s\|U\|i\|s_\|a\|m\|é\|r\|i\|c\|ain}}`	[ʒ ə s ɥ i .z‿a m e ʁ i k ɛ̃]
Georgian	{{IPAc-ka}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-ka\|dz\|a\|l\|a\|_\|e\|r\|t\|o\|b\|a\|sh\|i\|a}}`	[d͡zɑlɑ ɛrtʰɔbɑʃiɑ]
Hebrew	{{IPAc-he}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-he\|y\|a\|ʿ\|a\|k\|o\|v}}`	[jaʕakov]
Hungarian	{{IPAc-hu}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-hu\|'\|m\|a\|gy\|a\|r}}`	[ˈmɒɟɒr]
Irish	{{IPAc-ga}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-ga\|'\|b\|ai\|l'\|@\|-\|'\|á\|th\|@\|-\|'\|c'\|l'\|ia\|th}}`	[ˈbˠalʲə ˈaːhə ˈclʲiəh]
Italian	{{IPAc-it}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-it\|'\|i\|:\|o\|_\|'\|s\|o\|:\|n\|o\|_\|a\|m\|e\|r\|i\|'\|c\|a\|:\|n\|o}}`	[ˈ i ː o ˈ s o ː n o a m e r i ˈ k a ː n o ]
Japanese	{{IPAc-ja}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-ja\|ku\|ro\|si\|o}}`	[kɯɾoɕio]
Korean	{{IPAc-ko}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-ko\|h\|a\|ng\|eo}}`	[haːŋəː]
Mandarin	{{IPAc-cmn}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-cmn\|zh\|ong\|1\|h\|ua\|2\|-\|r\|en\|2\|m\|in\|2\|-\|g\|ong\|4\|h\|e\|2\|g\|uo\|2}}`	[ʈʂʊ́ŋxwǎ ɻə̌nmǐn kʊ̂ŋxɤ̌kwǒ]
Māori	{{IPAc-mi}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-mi\|ng\|ā\|r\|u\|a\|'\|w\|ā\|h\|i\|a}}`	[ŋaːɾʉaˈwaːhia]
Marshallese	{{IPAc2-mh}} (uses)	`{{IPAc2-mh\|mhahjelh}}`	[mˠɑːzʲɛlˠ]
Polish	{{IPAc-pl}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-pl\|'\|sz\|cz\|e\|ć\|i\|n}}`	[ˈʂt͡ʂɛt͡ɕin]
Portuguese	{{IPAc-pt}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-pt\|p\|o\|<\|r\|t\|u\|'\|g\|a\|l\|lang=pt}} and {{IPAc-pt\|b\|r\|a\|'\|S\|i\|l\|lang=br}}`	[p u ɾ t u ˈ ɣ a ɫ ] and [b ɾ a ˈ z i w ]
Romanian	{{IPAc-ro}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-ro\|ˈ\|m\|u\|n\|ț\|ii\|_\|f\|ă\|g\|ă\|ˈ\|r\|a\|ș\|u\|l\|ui}}`	[ˈ m u n ts ij f ə ɡ ə ˈ r a ʃ u l uj ]
Spanish	{{IPAc-es}} (uses)	`{{IPAc-es\|m\|i\|'\|gu\|e\|l\|_\|d\|e\|_\|c\|e\|r\|'\|v\|a\|n\|t\|e\|s\|_\|s\|aa\|'\|v\|e\|d\|r\|a}}`	[m i ˈ ɣ e l ð e θ e ɾ ˈ β a n t e s s aː ˈ β e ð ɾ a ]

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