Template:Usage of IPA templates

Wikipedia offers several templates for proper display of IPA transcriptions.

In general, instances of the IPA on a page should be enclosed in the IPA template, which formats the text in an IPA-compatible font. If a substantial portion of a page is in the IPA, it is customary to post notice of that fact with, though each token still requires the IPA template for proper formatting.

However, 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:

For IPA keys dedicated to a specific language in broad transcription, there are:
 * for English words, in a broad, non-regional transcription, as when giving the pronunciation of a key word in an article, use templates linking to Help:IPA for English, a chart of the subset of the IPA that is relevant to English:
 * IPA-en, appearing as: ,
 * pron-en, appearing as: ,
 * IPAlink-en, appearing as:.
 * for foreign 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:, or
 * pronounced, appearing as:, or
 * IPAlink, appearing as:.
 * for Australian English pronunciation specifically, use:
 * IPA-en-au, appearing as:, or
 * pron-en-au, appearing as:
 * for French:
 * IPA-fr, appearing as:
 * for German:
 * IPA-de, appearing as:.
 * for Hebrew:
 * IPA-he, appearing as:, or
 * IPA-he-small, appearing as:.
 * for Hungarian:
 * IPA-hu, appearing as:
 * (though hu is preferred)


 * for Irish:
 * IPA-ga, appearing as:.
 * for Italian:
 * IPA-it, appearing as:.
 * for Korean:
 * IPA-ko, appearing as:.
 * for Polish:
 * IPA-pl, appearing as: (NB: this does not add square brackets), or
 * Audio-IPA-pl, appearing with soundfile as:
 * (though pl is preferred)


 * for Russian:
 * IPA-ru, appearing as:.
 * for Spanish:
 * IPA-es, appearing as:.

The template IPAr can be used to generate a properly linked transcription for any language, with optional soundfile, and (currently for Polish only) offers the ability to enter ordinary letters for conversion to phonetic symbols. See the template page for usage.

Note
The older inconsistently named (though still operational) templates IPA2, IPAEng, and pronEng are deprecated, and are to be no longer used.