Template:Usage of IPA templates

Usage of IPA pronunciation templates
Wikipedia offers several templates for proper display of IPA transcriptions.

IPA font
In general, IPA symbols on a page should be enclosed in the 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, though each token still requires the 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 templates linking to Help:IPA for English, a chart of the subset of the IPA that is relevant to English:
 * IPA-en, appearing as: (also, , , as hereafter).
 * IPAc-en, which automates the conversion to IPA, so that  appears as . This provides mouse-over links to the symbols, and is now the preferred template.

Foreign words
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:
 * 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:
 * Or the word "pronounced" can be used as the introduction:
 * Language name only:
 * "IPA" only:
 * Link only:
 * Any of these may be combined with a sound file:
 * For the default introductory phrase, however, a placeholder such as “-” is required:
 * Link only:
 * Any of these may be combined with a sound file:
 * For the default introductory phrase, however, a placeholder such as “-” is required:
 * Any of these may be combined with a sound file:
 * For the default introductory phrase, however, a placeholder such as “-” is required:
 * For the default introductory phrase, however, a placeholder such as “-” is required:


 * Albanian: IPA-sq
 * Arabic: IPA-ar & IPA-arz (Egyptian)
 * Armenian: IPA-hy
 * Arpitan: IPA-frp
 * Astur-Leonese: IPA-ast, IPA-le, IPA-mwl, IPA-ext
 * Australian Aboriginal 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
 * Colognian (Kölsch): IPA-ksh
 * Czech and Slovak: IPA-cs
 * Danish: IPA-da
 * Dutch, Flemish, and Afrikaans: IPA-nl & IPA-af
 * English: IPA-en (see also IPAc-en hereafter)
 * Fijian: IPA-fj
 * Finnish and Estonian: IPA-fi & IPA-et
 * French: IPA-fr (see also IPAc-fr hereafter)
 * Georgian: IPA-ka


 * German: IPA-de & IPA-gsw
 * Greek: IPA-el
 * Haitian Creole: IPA-ht
 * Hawaiian: IPA-haw
 * Hebrew: IPA-he
 * Hindustani: IPA-hns, IPA-hi, IPA-ur
 * Hungarian: IPA-hu (see also IPAc-hu hereafter)
 * Icelandic: IPA-is
 * Irish: IPA-ga (see also IPAc-ga hereafter)
 * Italian: IPA-it
 * Japanese: IPA-ja
 * Khmer: IPA-km
 * Korean: IPA-ko
 * Lao-Isan: IPA-lo
 * Latin: IPA-la
 * Malagasy: IPA-mg
 * Malay and Indonesian: IPA-may
 * Mandarin Chinese: IPA-cmn (see also IPAc-cmn hereafter)
 * Manx: IPA-gv
 * Nahuatl: IPA-nah


 * Occitan: IPA-oc
 * Persian: IPA-fa
 * Polish: IPA-pl (see also IPAc-pl hereafter)
 * Portuguese and Galician: 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
 * Spanish: IPA-es
 * Swedish and Norwegian: IPA-sv & IPA-no
 * Tagalog (Filipino): IPA-tl
 * Tamil: IPA-ta
 * Thai: IPA-th
 * Tibetan: IPA-bo
 * Turkish and Azeri: IPA-tr
 * Ukrainian: IPA-uk
 * Vietnamese: IPA-vi
 * Welsh: IPA-cy
 * Yiddish: IPA-yi

IPA-all for not-supported languages
Redirects have been created for languages which do not yet have dedicated templates. Transcriptions which use these redirects will link to IPA-all for the time being; when a language-specific template is created the articles will be linked correctly. For example, you can use for Javanese, but for the moment it will be redirected to, producing.


 * IPA-all (transcriptions not specific to any language, or which have not yet been 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
 * IPA-art artificial (Esperanto, Tolkien, etc.)
 * IPA-ath Athabaskan (Dene, Navajo)
 * 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-cau (North) Caucasian
 * IPA-cel Celtic (Brythonic, Gaulish)
 * IPA-ch Chamorro
 * IPA-csb Kashubian
 * 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
 * IPA-ha Hausa
 * IPA-hak Hakka
 * 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 [also IPA-srd])
 * IPA-iu Inuit
 * IPA-jv Javanese


 * 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)
 * IPA-lt Lithuanian
 * IPA-ltc Middle Chinese
 * IPA-lv Latvian
 * IPA-mga Middle Irish
 * IPA-ml Malayalam
 * IPA-mn Mongol
 * 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-syr Syriac
 * 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. languages with only a few transcriptions apiece, or unidentified)
 * IPA-yo Yoruba
 * IPA-zu Nguni (Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi)

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