Template:Using IPA templates

Use of IPA pronunciation presets
offers several templates for the correct display of transcripts International Phonetic Alphabet.

IPA source
In general, IPA symbols on a page should be included in the template, which formats the text in an IPA-producing font. If a substantial part of a page uses IPA, it is customary to report this fact with, although each symbol still requires the  for proper formatting.

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

Words in English
For words in English, in a broad non-regional transcript, such as when a keyword is pronounced in an article, use presets linking Help:IPA for English, a table of IPA subdivision that is relevant to English:
 * IPA-en, appearing as: (also, , , as below)
 * pron-en, appearing as: ,

Foreign words
For foreign words that are not assimilated in English, regional English word pronunciations and non-standard English dialects, use the default links linking to a more generic graphic Help:IPA, containing all major symbols IPA:
 * IPA-all, appearing as:, or
 * for specific languages, for specific languages, there may be specific IPA keys for standardized transcription. There are several options for your display. The first cell includes the ISO code for the language, the second is the transcript, the keys to a third introductory sentence; and the fourth is the space for a sound file. Using the French word eau as an example, we have the standard format:
 * Or the word "pronounced" can be used as an introduction:
 * Language name only:
 * "IPA" only:
 * Link only:
 * Any of these can be combined with a sound file:
 * For the standard introductory phrase, however, a placeholder, such as <-> is required:
 * For external files, use the URL:
 * Link only:
 * Any of these can be combined with a sound file:
 * For the standard introductory phrase, however, a placeholder, such as <-> is required:
 * For external files, use the URL:
 * For the standard introductory phrase, however, a placeholder, such as <-> is required:
 * For external files, use the URL:
 * For external files, use the URL:


 * Albanian: IPA-sq
 * Arabic:IPA-ar & IPA-arz (Egyptian)
 * Armenian: IPA-hy
 * Arpitan: IPA-frp
 * Asturo-Leonese: IPA-ast, IPA-le, IPA-mwl, IPA-ext
 * Australian_Languages: IPA-aus
 * Basque:IPA-eu
 * Belarusian: IPA-be
 * Berber (Tamaziɣt):IPA-tam
 * Bulgarian and Macedonian:IPA-mk & IPA-bg
 * Burmese:IPA-my
 * Cantonese:IPA-yue
 * Catalan: IPA-ca & IPA-va
 * Czech and Slovak: IPA-cs
 * Danish: IPA-da
 * Dutch language, Flemish, and Africaner: IPA-nl & IPA-af
 * Spanish: IPA-es
 * Fijian language: IPA-fj
 * Finnish and Estonian: IPA-fi & IPA-et
 * French: IPA-fr (see also IPAc-fr below)
 * Georgian language: IPA-ka


 * German: IPA-de & IPA-gsw
 * 'Greek language: IPA-el
 * Haitian Crioulo: IPA-ht
 * Hawaiian: IPA-haw
 * Hebrew language: IPA-he
 * Hindustano language: IPA-hns, IPA-hi, IPA-ur
 * Hungarian: IPA-hu (see also IPAc-hu below)
 * Icelandic: IPA-is
 * English: IPA-en (if not IPAc-en below)
 * Irish: IPA-ga (see also IPAc-ga below)
 * Italian: IPA-it
 * Japanese: IPA-ja
 * Khmer language: IPA-km
 * Korean language: IPA-ko
 * Lao-Isan: IPA-lo
 * Latin: IPA-la
 * Malagasy: IPA-mg
 * Malay and Indonesian: IPA-may
 * Chinese Mandarin: IPA-cmn (see also IPAc-cmn below)
 * Manx language: IPA-gv
 * Nahuatl: IPA-nah


 * Occitan Language: IPA-oc
 * Persian language: IPA-fa
 * Polish language: IPA-pl (see also IPAc-pl below)
 * Portuguese and Galego: IPA-pt & IPA-gl
 * Romanian: IPA-ro
 * Russian: IPA-ru
 * Sanskrit: IPA-sa
 * Scottish Gaelic: IPA-gd
 * Serbian and Croatian: IPA-sh, IPA-hr, IPA-sr
 * Swedish and Norwegian: IPA-sv & IPA-no
 * Tagalog language (Filipino): IPA-tl
 * Tamil: IPA-ta
 * Thai language: IPA-th
 * Tibetan: IPA-bo
 * Turkish and Azeri: IPA-tr
 * Ukrainian language: IPA-uk
 * Vietnamese: IPA-vi
 * Welsh language: IPA-cy
 * Yiddish: IPA-yi

IPA-all for unsupported languages
Redirects have been created for languages that do not yet have dedicated presets. Transcripts that use these redirects will link to IPA-all for now; when a language-specific preset is created, articles will be linked correctly. For example, you can use from javanese, but for the time it will be redirected to, producing.


 * IPA-all (non-language-specific transcripts, or not yet reassigned)
 * IPA-ace Acehnese
 * IPA-ain Ainu
 * IPA-ak Akan (Fante, Twi)
 * IPA-alg Algonquian (Micmac, Cree)
 * IPA-am Amharic
 * IPA-an Aragonese
 * IPA-ang Old English/Anglo-Saxon
 * IPA-arn Mapuche
 * Artificial IPA-art (Esperanto, Tolkien, etc.)
 * IPA-ath Athabaskan (Dene, Navajo)
 * {{tl|IPA-ay} Aymara
 * IPA-azc Uto-Aztecan (Shoshone, Comanche)
 * IPA-ba Bashkir
 * IPA-bm Manding/Bambara
 * IPA-bn Bengali, Assamese
 * IPA-bodia Bodish
 * IPA-br Breton
 * IPA-coa (North) Caucasian
 * IPA-cel Celtic (Brythonic, Gaulish)
 * IPA-ch Chamorro
 * IPA-csb Kashubian
 * {{tl|IPA-cv} Chuvash


 * IPA-dedia German dialects
 * IPA-dv Dhivehi
 * IPA-ee Gbe (Ewe, Fon)
 * IPA-endia English dialects
 * IPA-enm Middle English
 * IPA-esdia Spanish dialects
 * IPA-fo Faroese
 * IPA-frdia French dial. (Canadian, Metis, Norman)
 * IPA-fy Frisian
 * IPA-gn Guarani
 * IPA-gsw Alemannic (Swiss, Alsatian)
 * IPA-gu Gujarati
 * {{tl|IPA-ha} Hausa
 * IPA-hak Hakka
 * {{tl|IPA-hmn} Hmong
 * IPA-ig Igbo
 * IPA-ira Iranian (Old Persian, Kurdish, Pamir)
 * IPA-iro Iroquoian (Mohawk, Cherokee)
 * IPA-itdia Italian dial. (Corsican, Sicilian, Sardinian (false IPA-srd)
 * IPA-iu Inuit
 * IPA-jv Javanese


 * {{tl|IPA-ki} Kikuyu
 * IPA-kk Kazakh
 * IPA-kl Greenlandic
 * IPA-kn Kannada
 * IPA-kok Konkani
 * IPA-kw Cornish
 * IPA-ky Kyrgyz
 * IPA-lg Ganda
 * IPA-lij Ligurian (Genoese)
 * {{tl|IPA-lt} Lithuanian
 * IPA-ltc Middle Chinese
 * {{tl|IPA-lv} Latvian
 * {{tl|IPA-mga} Middle Irish
 * IPA-mi Maori
 * {{tl|IPA-ml} Malayalam
 * {{tl|IPA-mn} Mongolian
 * IPA-mnw Mon
 * IPA-moh Mohawk
 * IPA-mos Mossi/Gurunsi
 * IPA-mr Marathi
 * IPA-mt Maltese
 * IPA-mus Muskogean (Chickasaw, Creek)
 * IPA-myn Maya(n)
 * IPA-nan Minnan/Taiwanese


 * IPA-ne Nepali
 * IPA-non Old Norse
 * IPA-ny Chewa
 * IPA-oax Oaxaca (Zapotec, Mixe, Otomi)
 * IPA-or Oriya
 * IPA-pa Punjabi
 * IPA-pms Piedmontese
 * IPA-poly (other) Polynesian
 * IPA-ps Pashto
 * IPA-qu Quecha
 * IPA-rm Romansh
 * IPA-rw Rwanda-Rundi
 * IPA-ryu Okinawan langs
 * IPA-sal Salish & NW Coast
 * IPA-sco Scots
 * IPA-sd Sindhi
 * IPA-sei Seri
 * IPA-sem (ancient) Semitic, Egyptian
 * IPA-sga Old Irish
 * IPA-shn Shan
 * IPA-si Sinhala
 * IPA-sio Siouan (Omaha, Lakota)
 * IPA-sl Slovene
 * IPA-sla Slavic (Old Slavic, Silesian, Sorbian)


 * IPA-sm Samoan
 * IPA-sn Shona
 * IPA-so Somali
 * IPA-st Sotho
 * IPA-su Sundanese
 * IPA-sw Swahili
 * IPA-te Telugu
 * IPA-tn Tswana
 * IPA-to Tongan
 * IPA-tt Tatar
 * IPA-tyv Tuvan
 * IPA-ug Uyghur
 * IPA-uz Uzbek
 * IPA-wo Wolof
 * IPA-wuu Wu/Shanghainese
 * IPA-xh Nguni (Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi)
 * IPA-xx (misc. línguas com algumas transcrições só cada uma ou não identificadas)
 * IPA-yo Yoruba
 * IPA-zu Nguni (Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi)

Conversion to IPA
Another type of language-specific preset allows you to enter common letters (or conventional ASCII equivalents) of a given language for the automatic conversion of phonetic symbols. Those currently available IPAc-ar for Arabic, IPAc-cmn for Mandarin, IPAc-en for English, IPAc-fr for French, IPAc-ga para for Irish, IPAc-hu for Hungarian, IPAc-pl for Polish and IPAc-ja for Japanese. For example: