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:
 * the template IPA-en is available for a broad, non-regional transcription of an English word, as when giving the pronunciation of a key word in an article, as it links to Help:pronunciation, a chart of the subset of the IPA that is relevant to English:
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 * the template IPA-all would be more appropriate for foreign words that are not assimilated into English, regional pronunciations of English words, and non-standard English dialects, as it links to the more general Help:IPA chart, containing all major IPA symbols:
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 * the template IPA-en-au is available for phonemic transcriptions of Australian pronunciation, with variant pron-en-au having "pronounced" as lead word.
 * the template IPA-he is available for Hebrew.
 * the template IPA-ga is available for Irish.
 * the template IPA-ko is available for Korean.
 * the template IPA-pl is available for Polish, and Audio-IPA-pl for Polish words with sound files.
 * the template IPA-ru is available for Russian.
 * the template IPA-es is available for Spanish.

Note
The older inconsistently named (though still operational) templates IPA2, IPAEng, and pronEng are deprecated. yes a ball sack is something you suck on