Usage This template formats IPA transcriptions and links them to Help:IPA/Standard German . The transcription should match the conventions of that page; for narrower dialect transcriptions, use {{IPA-all }}, which links to a more complete IPA page.
The first parameter in the template is for the transcription, and a second optional parameter is a switch that controls the leading text:
pron → "pronounced"lang → "German:"at → "Austrian German pronunciation:"langat → "Austrian German:"ch → "Swiss Standard German pronunciation:"langch → "Swiss Standard German:"IPA → "IPA:"With no second parameter, the leading text "German pronunciation:" will be used; an empty second parameter will show no leading text.
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{{IPA-de|ɪç|}}
[ɪç]  
{{IPA-de|ɪç|IPA}}
IPA:  [ɪç]  
{{IPA-de|ɪç|lang}}
German:  [ɪç]  
{{IPA-de|ɪç|pron}}
pronounced  [ɪç]  
{{IPA-de|ɪç}}
German pronunciation:  [ɪç]  
 
{{IPA-de|ɪç||De-ich.ogg}}
[ɪç] (listen  
 
{{IPA-de|ɪç|IPA|De-ich.ogg}}
IPA:  [ɪç] (listen  
 
{{IPA-de|ɪç|lang|De-ich.ogg}}
German:  [ɪç] (listen  
 
{{IPA-de|ɪç|pron|De-ich.ogg}}
pronounced  [ɪç] (listen  
 
 
{{IPA-de|ɪç|-|De-ich.ogg}}
German pronunciation:  [ɪç] (listen  
 
Usage of IPA pronunciation templates 
Comparisons Introductory guides 
Wikipedia offers several templates for proper display of IPA  transcriptions.
IPA font In general, IPA symbols on a page should be enclosed in the {{IPA }} 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 {{Contains special characters |IPA}}, though each token still requires the {{IPA }} 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 {{IPAc-en }}, which links to Help:IPA/English , a chart of the subset of the IPA that is relevant to English, and automates the conversion to IPA, so that {{IPAc-en|'|w|3:r|d}} appears as . This provides mouse-over links to the symbols, and is now the preferred template.
For a specific transcription in a regional variety, use {{IPA-endia }} or {{IPA-all }}.
Non-English words For 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: IPA:  [word]  
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  [o]  as an example, we have the default format:
{{IPA-fr|o}} → French pronunciation:  [o]  
Or the word "pronounced" can be used as the introduction:
{{IPA-fr|o|pron}} → pronounced  [o]  
Language name only:
{{IPA-fr|o|lang}} → French:  [o]  
"IPA" only:
{{IPA-fr|o|IPA}} → IPA:  [o]  
Link only:
 
Any of these may be combined with a sound file:
{{IPA-fr|o|lang|Fr-eau.ogg}} → French:  [o] (listen   
For the default introductory phrase, however, a placeholder such as “-” is required:
{{IPA-fr|o|-|Fr-eau.ogg}} → French pronunciation:  [o] (listen   Supported languages and templates 
Key
 
Language
 
Template(s)
  
Help:IPA/Adyghe 
Adyghe 
{{IPA-ady }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Afrikaans 
Afrikaans 
{{IPA-af }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Albanian 
Albanian 
{{IPA-sq }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Alemannic German 
Alemannic German 
{{IPA-gsw }} (uses )  
Colonia Tovar dialect 
{{IPA-gct }} (uses )  
Swabian German 
{{IPA-swg }} (uses )  
Walser German 
{{IPA-wae }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Amharic 
Amharic 
{{IPA-am }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Arabic 
Arabic 
{{IPA-ar }} (uses )IPAc-ar }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Armenian 
Armenian 
{{IPA-hy }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Assamese 
Assamese 
{{IPA-as }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Astur-Leonese 
Asturian 
{{IPA-ast }} (uses )  
Extremaduran 
{{IPA-ext }} (uses )  
Leonese 
{{IPA-le }} (uses )  
Mirandese 
{{IPA-mwl }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Australian languages 
Australian Aboriginal languages 
{{IPA-aus }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Azerbaijani 
Azerbaijani 
{{IPA-az }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Basque 
Basque 
{{IPA-eu }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Belarusian 
Belarusian 
{{IPA-be }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Bengali 
Bengali 
{{IPA-bn }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Berber 
Berber 
{{IPA-ber }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Breton 
Breton 
{{IPA-br }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Bulgarian 
Bulgarian 
{{IPA-bg }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Burmese 
Burmese 
{{IPA-my }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Cantonese 
Cantonese 
{{IPA-yue }} (uses )IPAc-yue }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Catalan 
Catalan 
{{IPA-ca }} (uses )  
Valencian  
{{IPA-va }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Colognian 
Colognian 
{{IPA-ksh }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Corsican 
Corsican 
{{IPA-co }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Czech 
Czech 
{{IPA-cs }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Danish 
Danish 
{{IPA-da }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Dutch 
Dutch 
{{IPA-nl }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Egyptian Arabic 
Egyptian Arabic 
{{IPA-arz }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Emilian-Romagnol 
Emilian 
{{IPA-egl }} (uses )  
Romagnol 
{{IPA-rgn }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/English 
English 
{{IPAc-en }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Esperanto 
Esperanto 
{{IPA-eo }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Estonian 
Estonian 
{{IPA-et }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Fijian 
Fijian 
{{IPA-fj }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Finnish 
Finnish 
{{IPA-fi }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Franco-Provençal 
Franco-Provençal 
{{IPA-frp }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/French 
French 
{{IPA-fr }} (uses )IPAc-fr }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Galician 
Galician 
{{IPA-gl }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Georgian 
Georgian 
{{IPA-ka }} (uses )IPAc-ka }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Greek 
Greek 
{{IPA-el }} (uses )IPA-grc }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Gujarati 
Gujarati 
{{IPA-gu }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Haitian Creole 
Haitian Creole 
{{IPA-ht }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Hawaiian 
Hawaiian 
{{IPA-haw }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Hebrew 
Hebrew 
{{IPA-he }} (uses )IPAc-he }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Hejazi Arabic 
Hejazi Arabic 
{{IPA-acw }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Hindi and Urdu 
Hindustani 
{{IPA-hns }} (uses )  
Hindi 
{{IPA-hi }} (uses )  
Urdu 
{{IPA-ur }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Hmong 
Hmong 
{{IPA-hmn }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Hungarian 
Hungarian 
{{IPA-hu }} (uses )IPAc-hu }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Icelandic 
Icelandic 
{{IPA-is }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Inuktitut 
Inuktitut 
{{IPA-iu }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Inupiaq 
Inupiaq 
{{IPA-ik }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Irish 
Irish 
{{IPA-ga }} (uses )IPAc-ga }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Italian 
Italian 
{{IPA-it }} (uses )IPAc-it }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Italian dialects 
Italian dialects 
{{IPA-itdia }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Japanese 
Japanese 
{{IPA-ja }} (uses )IPAc-ja }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Kazakh 
Kazakh 
{{IPA-kk }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Khmer 
Khmer 
{{IPA-km }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Korean 
Korean 
{{IPA-ko }} (uses )IPAc-ko }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Kurdish 
Kurdish 
{{IPA-ku }} (uses )  
Kurmanji  (Northern Kurdish) 
{{IPA-kmr }} (uses )  
Sorani (Central Kurdish) 
{{IPA-ckb }} (uses )  
Southern Kurdish 
{{IPA-sdh }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Kyrgyz 
Kyrgyz 
{{IPA-ky }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Lao 
Lao 
{{IPA-lo }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Latin 
Latin 
{{IPA-la }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Latvian 
Latvian 
{{IPA-lv }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Lebanese Arabic 
Lebanese Arabic 
{{IPA-apc }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Ligurian 
Ligurian 
{{IPA-lij }} (uses )  
Help:IPA/Lithuanian 
Lithuanian 
{{IPA-lt uses )  
Help:IPA/Lombard 
Lombard 
{{IPA-lmo uses )  
Help:IPA/Luxembourgish 
Luxembourgish 
{{IPA-lb uses )  
Help:IPA/Macedonian 
Macedonian 
{{IPA-mk uses )  
Help:IPA/Malagasy 
Malagasy 
{{IPA-mg uses )  
Help:IPA/Malay 
Malay 
{{IPA-ms uses )  
Indonesian 
{{IPA-id uses )  
Help:IPA/Malayalam 
Malayalam 
{{IPA-ml uses )  
Help:IPA/Maltese 
Maltese 
{{IPA-mt uses )  
Help:IPA/Mandarin 
Standard Chinese 
{{IPA-cmn uses )IPAc-cmn uses )  
Help:IPA/Manx 
Manx 
{{IPA-gv uses )  
Help:IPA/Maithili 
Maithili 
{{IPA-mai uses )  
Help:IPA/Māori 
Māori 
{{IPA-mi uses )IPAc-mi uses )  
Help:IPA/Marathi 
Marathi 
{{IPA-mr uses )  
Help:IPA/Marshallese 
Marshallese 
{{IPA-mh uses )IPAc-mh uses )  
Help:IPA/Mauritian Creole 
Mauritian Creole 
{{IPA-mfe uses )  
Help:IPA/Mayan 
Mayan 
{{IPA-myn uses )  
Help:IPA/Mongolian 
Mongolian 
{{IPA-mn uses )  
Help:IPA/Nahuatl 
Nahuatl 
{{IPA-nah uses )  
Help:IPA/Navajo 
Navajo 
{{IPA-nv uses )  
Help:IPA/Neapolitan 
Neapolitan 
{{IPA-nap uses )  
Help:IPA/Nepali 
Nepali 
{{IPA-ne uses )  
Help:IPA/Nguni 
Swazi 
{{IPA-ss uses )  
Xhosa 
{{IPA-xh uses )  
Zulu 
{{IPA-zu uses )  
Help:IPA/Northern Thai 
Northern Thai 
{{IPA-nod uses )  
Help:IPA/Norwegian 
Norwegian 
{{IPA-no uses )  
Help:IPA/Occitan 
Occitan 
{{IPA-oc uses )  
Help:IPA/Odia 
Odia 
{{IPA-or uses )  
Help:IPA/Old English 
Old English 
{{IPA-ang uses )  
Help:IPA/Persian 
Persian 
{{IPA-fa uses )  
Help:IPA/Piedmontese 
Piedmontese 
{{IPA-pms uses )  
Help:IPA/Polish 
Polish 
{{IPA-pl uses )IPAc-pl uses )  
Help:IPA/Portuguese 
Portuguese 
{{IPA-pt uses )IPAc-pt uses )  
Help:IPA/Punjabi 
Punjabi 
{{IPA-pa uses )  
Help:IPA/Quechua 
Quechua 
{{IPA-qu uses )  
Help:IPA/Romanian 
Romanian 
{{IPA-ro uses )IPAc-ro uses )  
Help:IPA/Romansh 
Romansh 
{{IPA-rm uses )  
Help:IPA/Russian 
Russian 
{{IPA-ru uses )  
Help:IPA/Sanskrit 
Sanskrit 
{{IPA-sa uses )  
Help:IPA/Sardinian 
Sardinian 
{{IPA-sc uses )  
Help:IPA/Scottish Gaelic 
Scottish Gaelic 
{{IPA-gd uses )  
Help:IPA/Serbo-Croatian 
Serbo-Croatian 
{{IPA-sh uses )  
Croatian 
{{IPA-hr uses )  
Serbian 
{{IPA-sr uses )  
Help:IPA/Shan and Tai Lue 
Shan 
{{IPA-shn uses )  
Tai Lue 
{{IPA-khb uses )  
Help:IPA/Sicilian 
Sicilian 
{{IPA-scn uses )  
Help:IPA/Slovak 
Slovak 
{{IPA-sk uses )  
Help:IPA/Slovene 
Slovene 
{{IPA-sl uses )  
Help:IPA/Spanish 
Spanish 
{{IPA-es uses )IPAc-es uses )  
Help:IPA/Standard German 
German 
{{IPA-de uses )  
Help:IPA/Swahili 
Swahili 
{{IPA-sw uses )  
Help:IPA/Swedish 
Swedish 
{{IPA-sv uses )  
Help:IPA/Tagalog 
Tagalog 
{{IPA-tl uses )  
Help:IPA/Taiwanese Hokkien 
Taiwanese Hokkien 
{{IPA-taiwan uses )  
Help:IPA/Tamil 
Tamil 
{{IPA-ta uses )  
Help:IPA/Tatar 
Tatar 
{{IPA-tt uses )IPA-crh uses )  
Help:IPA/Telugu 
Telugu 
{{IPA-te uses )  
Help:IPA/Thai 
Thai 
{{IPA-th uses )IPA-sou uses )  
Help:IPA/Tibetan 
Tibetan 
{{IPA-bo uses )  
Help:IPA/Tigrinya 
Tigrinya 
{{IPA-ti uses )  
Help:IPA/Tunisian Arabic 
Tunisian Arabic 
{{IPA-aeb uses )  
Help:IPA/Turkish 
Turkish 
{{IPA-tr uses )  
Help:IPA/Turkmen 
Turkmen 
{{IPA-tk uses )  
Help:IPA/Ukrainian 
Ukrainian 
{{IPA-uk uses )  
Help:IPA/Uzbek 
Uzbek 
{{IPA-uz uses )  
Help:IPA/Venetian 
Venetian 
{{IPA-vec uses )  
Help:IPA/Vietnamese 
Vietnamese 
{{IPA-vi uses )  
Help:IPA/Walloon 
Walloon 
{{IPA-wa uses )  
Help:IPA/Welsh 
Welsh 
{{IPA-cy uses )  
Help:IPA/West Frisian 
West Frisian 
{{IPA-fy uses )  
Help:IPA/Wu Chinese 
Wu Chinese 
{{IPA-wuu uses )  
Help:IPA/Yiddish 
Yiddish 
{{IPA-yi uses )  
Languages without dedicated keys Templates have been created for languages which do not yet have dedicated key pages. Transcriptions which use these templates will link to Help:IPA  for the time being; when a language-specific key is created the templates will be linked accordingly. For example, you can use {{IPA-jv |word}} for Javanese, but for the moment it will link to Help:IPA , producing Javanese pronunciation:  [word] 
Languages and language extensions (IPA-xx) with links to Help:IPA
 
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Conversion to IPA The template {{x2i }} takes X-SAMPA  symbols (ASCII  equivalents of IPA symbols) and converts them to IPA.
Other language-specific templates allow you to enter ordinary letters (or conventional ASCII equivalents) in place of IPA characters, and they will be automatically converted to the phonetic symbols that are used to transcribe the language. The templates that are currently available are shown below, with examples:
The following templates have also been created, but they haven't been vetted by the community and may not work properly:
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