Template:Usage of IPA templates

Usage of IPA pronunciation templates

Template:IPA keys 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}} → pronunzia franzëusa: ​[o]
• Or the word "pronounced" can be used as the introduction:
  • {{IPA-fr|o|pron}} → pronunzià [o]
• Language name only:
  • {{IPA-fr|o|lang}} → franzëus: [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}} → franzëus: [o] (scota su)
• For the default introductory phrase, however, a placeholder such as “-” is required:
  • {{IPA-fr|o|-|Fr-eau.ogg}} → pronunzia franzëusa: [o] (scota su)

Supported languages and templates

Key	Language	Template(s)
Help:IPA/Adyghe	Adyghe	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Afrikaans	Afrikaans	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Albanian	Albanian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Alemannic German	Alemannic German	Template:Tldep
	Colonia Tovar dialect	Template:Tldep
	Swabian German	Template:Tldep
	Walser German	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Amharic	Amharic	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Arabic	Arabic	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Armenian	Armenian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Assamese	Assamese	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Astur-Leonese	Asturian	Template:Tldep
	Extremaduran	Template:Tldep
	Leonese	Template:Tldep
	Mirandese	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Australian languages	Australian Aboriginal languages	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Azerbaijani	Azerbaijani	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Basque	Basque	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Belarusian	Belarusian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Bengali	Bengali	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Berber	Berber	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Breton	Breton	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Bulgarian	Bulgarian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Burmese	Burmese	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Cantonese	Cantonese	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Catalan	Catalan	Template:Tldep
	Valencian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Colognian	Colognian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Corsican	Corsican	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Czech	Czech	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Danish	Danish	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Dutch	Dutch	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Egyptian Arabic	Egyptian Arabic	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Emilian-Romagnol	Emilian	Template:Tldep
	Romagnol	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/English	English	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Esperanto	Esperanto	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Estonian	Estonian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Fijian	Fijian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Finnish	Finnish	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Franco-Provençal	Franco-Provençal	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/French	French	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Galician	Galician	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Georgian	Georgian	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Greek	Greek	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Gujarati	Gujarati	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Haitian Creole	Haitian Creole	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Hawaiian	Hawaiian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Hebrew	Hebrew	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Hejazi Arabic	Hejazi Arabic	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Hindi and Urdu	Hindustani	Template:Tldep
	Hindi	Template:Tldep
	Urdu	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Hmong	Hmong	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Hungarian	Hungarian	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Icelandic	Icelandic	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Igbo	Igbo	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Insular Catalan	Insular Catalan	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Inuktitut	Inuktitut	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Inupiaq	Inupiaq	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Irish	Irish	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Italian	Italian	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Italian dialects	Italian dialects	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Japanese	Japanese	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Kazakh	Kazakh	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Khmer	Khmer	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Korean	Korean	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Kurdish	Kurdish	Template:Tldep
	Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish)	Template:Tldep
	Sorani (Central Kurdish)	Template:Tldep
	Southern Kurdish	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Kyrgyz	Kyrgyz	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Lao	Lao	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Latin	Latin	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Latvian	Latvian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Lebanese Arabic	Lebanese Arabic	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Ligurian	Ligurian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Lithuanian	Lithuanian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Lombard	Lombard	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Luxembourgish	Luxembourgish	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Macedonian	Macedonian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Malagasy	Malagasy	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Malay	Malay	Template:Tldep
	Indonesian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Malayalam	Malayalam	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Maltese	Maltese	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Mandarin	Standard Chinese	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Manx	Manx	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Maithili	Maithili	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Māori	Māori	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Marathi	Marathi	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Marshallese	Marshallese	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Mauritian Creole	Mauritian Creole	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Mayan	Mayan	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Mongolian	Mongolian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Nahuatl	Nahuatl	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Navajo	Navajo	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Neapolitan	Neapolitan	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Nepali	Nepali	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Nguni	Swazi	Template:Tldep
	Xhosa	Template:Tldep
	Zulu	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Northern Thai	Northern Thai	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Norwegian	Norwegian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Occitan	Occitan	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Odia	Odia	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Old English	Old English	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Persian	Persian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Piedmontese	Piedmontese	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Polish	Polish	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Portuguese	Portuguese	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Punjabi	Punjabi	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Quechua	Quechua	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Romanian	Romanian	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Romansh	Romansh	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Russian	Russian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Sanskrit	Sanskrit	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Sardinian	Sardinian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Scottish Gaelic	Scottish Gaelic	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Serbo-Croatian	Serbo-Croatian	Template:Tldep
	Croatian	Template:Tldep
	Serbian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Shan and Tai Lue	Shan	Template:Tldep
	Tai Lue	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Sicilian	Sicilian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Slovak	Slovak	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Slovene	Slovene	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Spanish	Spanish	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Standard German	German	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Swahili	Swahili	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Swedish	Swedish	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Sylheti	Sylheti	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Tagalog	Tagalog	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Taiwanese Hokkien	Taiwanese Hokkien	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Tamil	Tamil	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Tatar	Tatar	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Telugu	Telugu	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Thai	Thai	Template:Tldep, Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Tibetan	Tibetan	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Tigrinya	Tigrinya	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Tunisian Arabic	Tunisian Arabic	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Turkish	Turkish	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Turkmen	Turkmen	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Ukrainian	Ukrainian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Uzbek	Uzbek	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Venetian	Venetian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Vietnamese	Vietnamese	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Walloon	Walloon	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Welsh	Welsh	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/West Frisian	West Frisian	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Wu Chinese	Wu Chinese	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Yiddish	Yiddish	Template:Tldep
Help:IPA/Yoruba	Yoruba	Template:Tldep

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 Template:IPA-jv.

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

Template:Tldep: Acehnese Template:Tldep: Avestan Template:Tldep: Saidi Arabic Template:Tldep: Gulf Arabic Template:Tldep: Ainu Template:Tldep: Akan (Fante, Twi) Template:Tldep: Akkadian Template:Tldep: Algonquian (Micmac, Cree) Template:Tldep: (transcriptions not specific to any language, or which have not yet been reassigned) Template:Tldep: Albanian dialects Template:Tldep: Aragonese Template:Tldep: Mapuche Template:Tldep: artificial (Ido, Tolkien, etc.) Template:Tldep: Athabaskan (Dene, Navajo) Template:Tldep: Aymara Template:Tldep: Uto-Aztecan (Shoshone, Comanche) Template:Tldep: Bashkir Template:Tldep: Bavarian Template:Tldep: Manding/Bambara Template:Tldep: Bodish Template:Tldep: (North) Caucasian Template:Tldep: Eastern Min Template:Tldep: Celtic (Brythonic, Gaulish) Template:Tldep: Chamorro Template:Tldep: Coptic Template:Tldep: Kashubian Template:Tldep: Chuvash Template:Tldep: German dialects Template:Tldep: Dhivehi Template:Tldep: Dogri Template:Tldep: Dzongkha Template:Tldep: Gbe (Ewe, Fon) Template:Tldep: English dialects Template:Tldep: Middle English Template:Tldep: Spanish dialects Template:Tldep: Faroese Template:Tldep: French dialects (Canadian, Metis, Norman) Template:Tldep: Friulian Template:Tldep: Gagauz Template:Tldep: Ge'ez Template:Tldep: Guaraní Template:Tldep: Wayuu Template:Tldep: Hausa Template:Tldep: Hakka Template:Tldep: Iroquoian (Mohawk, Cherokee) Template:Tldep: Iu Mien Template:Tldep: Javanese Template:Tldep: Kusunda Template:Tldep: Kikuyu Template:Tldep: Western Keres Template:Tldep: Greenlandic Template:Tldep: Kannada Template:Tldep: Konkani Template:Tldep: Kashmiri Template:Tldep: S'gaw Karen Template:Tldep: Cornish Template:Tldep: Ladino Template:Tldep: Ganda Template:Tldep: Limburgish Template:Tldep: Ladin Template:Tldep: Middle Chinese Template:Tldep: Laz Template:Tldep: Central Mazahua Template:Tldep: Middle Irish Template:Tldep: Neo-Mandaic Template:Tldep: Manchu Template:Tldep: Mon Template:Tldep: Mohawk Template:Tldep: Mossi/Gurunsi Template:Tldep: Muskogean (Chickasaw, Creek) Template:Tldep: Nauruan Template:Tldep: Minnan/Taiwanese Template:Tldep: Classical Nahuatl Template:Tldep: Low Saxon Template:Tldep: Newar Template:Tldep: Old Norse Template:Tldep: Norman Template:Tldep: Nuer Template:Tldep: Chewa Template:Tldep: Oaxaca (Zapotec, Mixe, Otomi) Template:Tldep: Oromo Template:Tldep: Ossetian Template:Tldep: Papiamento Template:Tldep: Picard Template:Tldep: Pennsylvania German Template:Tldep: Pali (linked to Sanskrit) Template:Tldep: Pitjantjatjara Template:Tldep: (other) Polynesian Template:Tldep: Pashto Template:Tldep: Portuguese dialects Template:Tldep: Quenya Template:Tldep: Rejang Template:Tldep: Rwanda-Rundi Template:Tldep: Okinawan langs Template:Tldep: Salish & NW Coast Template:Tldep: Scots Template:Tldep: Sindhi Template:Tldep: Northern Sami Template:Tldep: Sechelt Template:Tldep: Seri Template:Tldep: (ancient) Semitic, Egyptian Template:Tldep: Old Irish Template:Tldep: Sinhala Template:Tldep: Siouan (Omaha, Lakota) Template:Tldep: Sindarin Template:Tldep: Slavic (old Slavic, Silesian, Sorbian) Template:Tldep: Samoan Template:Tldep: Shona Template:Tldep: Somali Template:Tldep: Sotho Template:Tldep: Saterland Frisian Template:Tldep: Sundanese Template:Tldep: Sumerian Template:Tldep: Svan Template:Tldep: Classical Syriac Template:Tldep: Syriac Template:Tldep: Tetum Template:Tldep: Southern Tiwa Template:Tldep: Klingon Template:Tldep: Tswana Template:Tldep: Tongan Template:Tldep: Tsonga Template:Tldep: Tahitian Template:Tldep: Tuvan Template:Tldep: Talossan Template:Tldep: Uyghur Template:Tldep: Venda Template:Tldep: West Flemish Template:Tldep: Wandamen Template:Tldep: Wolof Template:Tldep: Warlpiri Template:Tldep: Mingrelian Template:Tldep: Zhuang

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	Template:Tldep	{{IPAc-ar|2|a|l|l|u|gh|a|t_|a|l|3|a|r|a|b|i|y|y|a}}	Template:IPAc-ar
Cantonese	Template:Tldep	{{IPAc-yue|h|ung|2|.|z|i|2}}	[hoŋ˧˥.tsiː˧˥]
English	Template:Tldep	{{IPAc-en|,|{|l|@|'|b|{|m|@}}	/ˌæləˈbæmə/
French	Template:Tldep	{{IPAc-fr|j|@|-|s|U|i|s_|a|m|é|r|i|c|ain}}	Template:IPAc-fr
Georgian	Template:Tldep	{{IPAc-ka|dz|a|l|a|_|e|r|t|o|b|a|sh|i|a}}	[]
Hebrew	Template:Tldep	{{IPAc-he|y|a|ʿ|a|k|o|v}}	Template:IPAc-he
Hungarian	Template:Tldep	{{IPAc-hu|'|m|a|gy|a|r}}	Template:IPAc-hu
Irish	Template:Tldep	{{IPAc-ga|'|b|ai|l'|@|-|'|á|th|@|-|'|c'|l'|ia|th}}	Template:IPAc-ga
Italian	Template:Tldep	{{IPAc-it|'|i|:|o|_|'|s|o|:|n|o|_|a|m|e|r|i|'|c|a|:|n|o}}	Template:IPAc-it
Japanese	Template:Tldep	{{IPAc-ja|ku|ro|si|o}}	Template:IPAc-ja
Korean	Template:Tldep	{{IPAc-ko|h|a|ng|eo}}	Template:IPAc-ko
Mandarin	Template:Tldep	{{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	Template:Tldep	{{IPAc-mi|ng|ā|r|u|a|'|w|ā|h|i|a}}	Template:IPAc-mi
Marshallese	Template:Tldep	{{IPAc2-mh|mhahjelh}}	Template:IPAc2-mh
Polish	Template:Tldep	{{IPAc-pl|'|sz|cz|e|ć|i|n}}	[ˈʂt͡ʂɛt͡ɕin]
Portuguese	Template:Tldep	{{IPAc-pt|p|o|<|r|t|u|'|g|a|l|lang=pt}} and {{IPAc-pt|b|r|a|'|S|i|l|lang=br}}	Template:IPAc-pt and Template:IPAc-pt
Romanian	Template:Tldep	{{IPAc-ro|ˈ|m|U|n|ț|ii|_|f|ă|G|ă|ˈ|r|a|ș|U|l|U|i}}	Template:IPAc-ro
Spanish	Template:Tldep	{{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}}	Template:IPAc-es

The following templates have also been created, but they haven't been vetted by the community and may not work properly:

• Template:Tldep: Old English
• Template:Tldep: German
• Template:Tldep: Icelandic
• Template:Tldep: Latin
• Template:Tldep: Dutch
• Template:Tldep: Ukrainian

See also

• {{Respell}}, for pronunciation respellings, which may be used for English words in addition to the IPA
• {{IPA-nci}}, for dual Nahuatl-IPA transcription

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