# வார்ப்புரு: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 , which links to விக்கிப்பீடியா:ஆங்கில ஒலிப்புக் குறிகள், a chart of the subset of the IPA that is relevant to English, and automates the conversion to IPA, so that <code></code> 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 or .  

#### 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 chart, containing all major IPA symbols:  
- , 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:
  - <code></code> →
- Or the word "pronounced" can be used as the introduction:
  - <code></code> →
- Language name only:
  - <code></code> →
- "IPA" only:
  - <code></code> →
- Link only:
  - <code></code> →
- Any of these may be combined with a sound file:
  - <code></code> →
- For the default introductory phrase, however, a placeholder such as “-” is required:
  - <code></code> →

#### Supported languages and templates
**Amharic**

| Arabic | , |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Armenian |  |  |
| Assamese |  |  |
| Asturian |  |  |
| Extremaduran |  |  |
| Leonese |  |  |
| Mirandese |  |  |
| Australian Aboriginal languages |  |  |
| Azerbaijani |  |  |
| Basque |  |  |
| Belarusian |  |  |
| Bengali |  |  |
| Berber |  |  |
| Breton |  |  |
| Bulgarian |  |  |
| Burmese |  |  |
| கண்டோனீயம் | , |  |
| Catalan |  |  |
| Valencian |  |  |
| Colognian |  |  |
| Corsican |  |  |
| Czech |  |  |
| Danish |  |  |
| Dutch |  |  |
| எகிப்திய அரபு |  |  |
| Emilian |  |  |
| Romagnol |  |  |
| விக்கிப்பீடியா:ஆங்கில ஒலிப்புக் குறிகள் | English |  |
| எஸ்பெராண்டோ |  |  |
| Estonian |  |  |
| Fijian |  |  |
| Finnish |  |  |
| Franco-Provençal |  |  |
| விக்கிப்பீடியா:பிரான்சிய ஒலிப்புக் குறிகள் | French | , |
| Galician |  |  |
| Georgian | , |  |
| Greek | , |  |
| Gujarati |  |  |
| Haitian Creole |  |  |
| Hawaiian |  |  |
| Hebrew | , |  |
| Hejazi Arabic |  |  |
| Hindustani |  |  |
| Hindi |  |  |
| Urdu |  |  |
| Hungarian | , |  |
| Icelandic |  |  |
| Inuktitut |  |  |
| Inupiaq |  |  |
| Irish | , |  |
| Italian | , |  |
| Italian dialects |  |  |
| Japanese | , |  |
| Kazakh |  |  |
| Khmer |  |  |
| Korean | , |  |
| Kurdish |  |  |
| Northern Kurdish |  |  |
| சொரானி மொழி |  |  |
| Southern Kurdish |  |  |
| Kyrgyz |  |  |
| Lao |  |  |
| இலத்தீன் |  |  |
| Latvian |  |  |
| Ligurian |  |  |
| Lithuanian |  |  |
| Lombard |  |  |
| இலுகுசெம்பூர்கிய மொழி |  |  |
| Malagasy |  |  |
| Malay |  |  |
| Indonesian |  |  |
| Macedonian |  |  |
| மலையாளம் |  |  |
| Maltese |  |  |
| Standard Chinese | , |  |
| Manx |  |  |
| Māori | , |  |
| Marshallese | , |  |
| Mauritian Creole |  |  |
| Mayan |  |  |
| Mongolian |  |  |
| நாகவற் மொழி |  |  |
| Navajo |  |  |
| Neapolitan |  |  |
| Nepali |  |  |
| Swazi |  |  |
| Xhosa |  |  |
| Zulu |  |  |
| Northern Thai |  |  |
| Norwegian |  |  |
| Occitan |  |  |
| Odia |  |  |
| பண்டைய ஆங்கிலம் |  |  |
| Persian |  |  |
| Piedmontese |  |  |
| Polish | , |  |
| Portuguese | , |  |
| Punjabi |  |  |
| Quechua |  |  |
| Romanian | , |  |
| Romansh |  |  |
| Russian |  |  |
| சமசுகிருதம் |  |  |
| Sardinian |  |  |
| சுகாத்திசு கேலிக்கு |  |  |
| செருபோகுரோவாசிய மொழி |  |  |
| Croatian |  |  |
| Serbian |  |  |
| Shan |  |  |
| Tai Lue |  |  |
| Sicilian |  |  |
| Slovak |  |  |
| Slovene |  |  |
| Spanish | , |  |
| German |  |  |
| Swahili |  |  |
| Swedish |  |  |
| Taiwanese Hokkien |  |  |
| Tagalog |  |  |
| Tamil |  |  |
| Tatar |  |  |
| Thai | , |  |
| Tibetan |  |  |
| Tigrinya |  |  |
| Tunisian Arabic |  |  |
| Turkish |  |  |
| Turkmen |  |  |
| Ukrainian |  |  |
| Uzbek |  |  |
| Venetian |  |  |
| Vietnamese |  |  |
| Walloon |  |  |
| Welsh |  |  |
| West Frisian |  |  |
| Yiddish | } |  |

#### 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 for the time being; when a language-specific key is created the templates will be linked accordingly. For example, you can use for Javanese, but for the moment it will link to , producing .  

- : Acehnese
- : Adyghe
- : Saidi Arabic
- : Gulf Arabic
- : Ainu
- : Akan (Fante, Twi)
- : Akkadian
- : Algonquian (Micmac, Cree)
- : (transcriptions not specific to any language, or which have not yet been reassigned)
- : Albanian dialects
- : Aragonese
- : Lebanese Arabic
- : Mapuche
- : artificial (Ido, Tolkien, etc.)
- : Athabaskan (Dene, Navajo)
- : Aymara
- : Uto-Aztecan (Shoshone, Comanche)
- : Bashkir
- : Bavarian
- : Manding/Bambara
- : Bodish
- : (North) Caucasian
- : Celtic (Brythonic, Gaulish)
- : Chamorro
- : Coptic
- : Kashubian
- : Chuvash
- : German dialects
- : Dhivehi
- : Dzongkha
- : Gbe (Ewe, Fon)
- : English dialects
- : Middle English
- : Spanish dialects
- : Faroese
- : French dialects (Canadian, Metis, Norman)
- : Friulian
- : Gagauz
- : Ge'ez
- : Guaraní
- : Hausa
- : Hakka
- : Hmong
- : Igbo
- : Iranian (Old Persian, Kurdish, Pamir)
- : Iroquoian (Mohawk, Cherokee)
- : Javanese
- : Kikuyu
- : Western Keres
- : Greenlandic
- : Kannada
- : Konkani
- : Kashmiri
- : S'gaw Karen
- : Cornish
- : Ladino
- : Ganda
- : Ladin
- : Middle Chinese
- : Laz
- : Central Mazahua
- : Middle Irish
- : Neo-Mandaic
- : Manchu
- : Mon
- : Mohawk
- : Mossi/Gurunsi
- : Marathi
- : Muskogean (Chickasaw, Creek)
- : Nauruan
- : Minnan/Taiwanese
- : Classical Nahuatl
- : Low Saxon
- : Old Norse
- : Nuer
- : Chewa
- : Oaxaca (Zapotec, Mixe, Otomi)
- : Oromo
- : Ossetian
- : Papiamento
- : Pennsylvania German
- : (other) Polynesian
- : Pashto
- : Portuguese dialects
- : Quenya
- : Rejang
- : Rwanda-Rundi
- : Okinawan langs
- : Salish & NW Coast
- : Scots
- : Sindhi
- : Sechelt
- : Seri
- : (ancient) Semitic, Egyptian
- : Old Irish
- : Sinhala
- : Siouan (Omaha, Lakota)
- : Sindarin
- : Slavic (old Slavic, Silesian, Sorbian)
- : Samoan
- : Shona
- : Somali
- : Sotho
- : Saterland Frisian
- : Sundanese
- : Sumerian
- : Svan
- : Swahili
- : Classical Syriac
- : Syriac
- : Telugu
- : Southern Tiwa
- : Klingon
- : Tswana
- : Tongan
- : Tuvan
- : Talossan
- : Uyghur
- : Wandamen
- : Wolof
- : Wu/Shanghainese
- : Mingrelian
- : Yoruba

#### Conversion to IPA
The template takes X-SAMPA symbols (அமெரிக்கத் தகவல் இடைமாற்றத் தரக் குறிமுறை 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:  

| Arabic | <code></code> |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cantonese | <code></code> |  |
| English | <code></code> |  |
| French | <code></code> |  |
| Georgian | <code></code> |  |
| Hebrew | <code></code> |  |
| Hungarian | <code></code> |  |
| Irish | <code></code> |  |
| Italian | <code></code> |  |
| Japanese | <code></code> |  |
| Korean | <code></code> |  |
| Mandarin | <code></code> |  |
| Māori | <code></code> |  |
| Marshallese | <code></code> |  |
| Polish | <code></code> |  |
| Portuguese | <code></code> | and |
| Romanian | <code></code> |  |
| Spanish | <code></code> | } |

The following templates have also been created, but they haven't been vetted by the community and may not work properly:  

- : Old English
- : German
- : Icelandic
- : Latin
- : Dutch
- : Ukrainian

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