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 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: ,


 * 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


 * 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 as an example, we have the default format:
 * &rarr;
 * Or the word "pronounced" can be used as the introduction:
 * &rarr;
 * Language name only:
 * &rarr;
 * "IPA" only:
 * &rarr;
 * Link only:
 * &rarr;
 * Any of these may be combined with a sound file:
 * &rarr;
 * For the default introductory phrase, however, a placeholder such as ‹-› is required:
 * &rarr;
 * For external files, use the URL:
 * &rarr;

The supported languages are:
 * Arabic: IPA-ar
 * Armenian: IPA-hy
 * Catalan: IPA-ca
 * Czech and Slovak: IPA-cs
 * Danish: IPA-da
 * Dutch, Flemish, and '''Afrikaans: IPA-nl
 * English: IPA-en
 * Finnish and Estonian: IPA-fi
 * French: IPA-fr
 * German: IPA-de
 * Hebrew: IPA-he
 * Hungarian: IPA-hu
 * Irish: IPA-ga
 * Italian: IPA-it
 * Japanese: IPA-ja
 * Korean: IPA-ko
 * Nahuatl: IPA-nah
 * Portuguese: IPA-pt
 * Romanian: IPA-ro
 * Russian: IPA-ru
 * Scottish Gaelic: IPA-gd
 * Serbian and Croatian: IPA-sc
 * Spanish: IPA-es
 * Swedish and Norwegian: IPA-sv
 * Vietnamese: IPA-vi
 * Welsh: IPA-cy

The Polish templates are different, taking the orthography as the input:
 * IPA-pl takes up to 20 phonemes:  &rarr;
 * (NB: this does not add square brackets automatically, so that long transcriptions can be made by stringing IPA-pl templates together.)


 * Audio-IPA-pl adds a sound file:  &rarr;
 * (NB: this does add brackets automatically)

There is a similar conversion template for Hungarian:
 * convertIPA-hu also takes up to 20 phonemes:  &rarr;

The template IPAr can be used to generate a properly linked default 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, pronEng, IPAlink, and IPAlink-en are deprecated, and are to be no longer used.