Help talk:IPA/Archive 3

Extra symbols
I found a couple of symbols whitch are not in this list yet, like ʘ ǂ etc. But they do have a page on Wikipedia, so should I add them to this list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gyvank (talk • contribs) 14:39, 7 October 2011 (UTC)


 * We didn't include them because they're so rare that it's unlikely anyone would be directed here for them. We haven't included the entire IPA. But if you have been directed here for them, then yes, they should be added to the list. — kwami (talk) 20:44, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Affricates and double articulation
In "Affricates and double articulation" section it tries to indicate that some form of "tie bar" is wrong. Gives two examples indicating one is wrong. Then it gives various examples in associated fonts.

I read it for seven times. I know my English is not perfect but there seems a problem with the statements in this section. I couldn't understand which is "proper" and "correct"?

Should the tie bar be above both of the characters or should it be et the left side of the two letters?

My browser (Firefox 8.0.1) which is using Lucida Sans Unicode and Arial Unicode MS shows two different forms for the examples. In the first example tie bar is above both of the letters. In the second example it is at the left side of the both letters.

Now I can't understand... If My browser is capable of showing it above both of the letters, why does it show it on the left side for some of the text on wikipedia? Almost for all articles I have seen, tie bar is on the left. But here, tie bar is above both letters for the first example. And the text -as I understood- states that it should be "above" not "on the left". when I google for "tie bar" and "affiriciate", I see that it is "above" too. So "above" should be the correct version.

So, can someone please edit that section so that it can be understood which one is correct.

I would also appreciate if someone tells me what's wrong with Arial Unicode MS? Because in some other help pages of Wikipedia Arial Unicode MS is recomended for Firefox.--76.31.238.174 (talk) 02:36, 21 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, the tie bar should go above. Check the PDF consonant chart in the main IPA article for how it is supposed to look. MS fonts have several goofs in the IPA block, and this is one of them. — kwami (talk) 20:45, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Can Wikipedia get the Gentium Plus back?
Together with the Charis SIL font? This one is ugly and buggy! Why was this changed? For IPA. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.161.124.138 (talk) 11:10, 11 April 2012 (UTC)


 * You mean in the CSS specifications? I thought we had Gentium Plus. — kwami (talk) 20:46, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Absency of a link to the Portuguese language version
Where's the portuguese version of this article? Nathanael Everton (talk) 18:16, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Do you mean WP:IPA for Portuguese and Galician or are you talking about at the Portuguese Wikipedia? — Æµ§œš¹  [ãːɱ ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɪ̃ə̃nlɪ] 19:15, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: moved. I'm seeing a weak consensus to move, in addition to the fact that the original move from Help --> Wikipedia was done without discussion and the editor who moved it stated that it was just their opinion and that it should be moved back if others disagreed. Note also that I'll only be moving IPA to Help:IPA (not Help:International Phonetic Alphabet which I will create as a redirect) because it has not been discussed in this RM and it's been stable at "IPA" for many years. Jenks24 (talk) 11:01, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

– and for all languages in Category:Wikipedia IPA. They are all pages that are helpful to readers (as well as editors) so they should not be in project namespace. Help namespace is for help pages (fancy that!). -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 21:25, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * IPA → Help:International Phonetic Alphabet
 * IPA for Albanian → Help:IPA for Albanian
 * IPA for Arabic → Help:IPA for Arabic
 * IPA for Armenian → Help:IPA for Armenian
 * Indeed, it's even in the Help WikiProject o.O --The Evil IP address (talk) 12:58, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment, I'm neutral, but I do recall that they were originally help pages that got moved to WP space. I can't remember the location of that earlier discussion or a subsequent request to move back to help space. — Æµ§œš¹  [ãːɱ ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɪ̃ə̃nlɪ]  15:13, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Here is the previous discussion. The original move was done boldly.  — Æµ§œš¹  [ãːɱ ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɪ̃ə̃nlɪ]  17:00, 22 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Transwiki all to wiktionary. And fix any links using the wikt: prefix. If no consensus to transwiki, then I support putting in the help namespace. - jc37 00:16, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Why would be transwiki guides about Wikipedia's IPA transcriptions to wiktionary? That's a whole separate project with their own transcription schemes. — Æµ§œš¹  [ãːɱ ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɪ̃ə̃nlɪ]  14:35, 22 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Object. They have been in "help" in the past and were moved to "WP" since they are akin to the "manual of style". This discussion comes up once in a while, but it does not make sense to flip-flop. &minus;Woodstone (talk) 05:23, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think this is really comparable to MOS pages. The relevant MOS is at Manual of Style/Pronunciation and describes this page as "a non-technical introduction to the symbols used in the IPA for languages other than English". I think the help namespace might actually be more appropriate here, although I have no strong feelings either way. Jafeluv (talk) 07:12, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.


 * I'm not sure I hold strong views either was as long as they still do what they "do" but I'm rather unhappy about the fact this was debated on THIS page with no notifications on the separate pages. I had no reason to watch this page and the first I heard of this move was when I saw the move log. Bad medicine, folks... Akerbeltz (talk) 15:44, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, WT:WikiProject Linguistics would've been a good place to notify. Because the general consensus so far has been that it doesn't matter, I think further efforts to move should be opposed unless there is a clear and compelling reason. — Æµ§œš¹  [ãːɱ ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɪ̃ə̃nlɪ]  16:32, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Completely agreed. I don't see many regular contributors to the Linguistics articles commenting here... It's a really weak consensus. Lguipontes (talk) 23:09, 13 September 2012 (UTC)


 * There are many "editors at large" who are not involved with individual WikiProjects but their input is as equally valid as WikiProject Linguistics participants. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 08:23, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

"Morse Code" Underlining?
Does the underlining under IPA listings have some meaning? It looks like Morse code but is clearly not. I can find no reference to it. For example, under the first IPA for Tinian, the underline appears as: ---..--..-...   Any help appreciated. Marquess (talk) 19:10, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
 * No, it's just the text rendering. — Lfdder (talk) 20:05, 9 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Ah, yes, it appears that some adjoining dots are concatenating into an apparent 'dash', depending on the width of the glyph. So, next question, why is this supposed-to-be-dotted underline there in the first place? Why not just have the hyperlink? Marquess (talk) 18:18, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
 * It's to hint that there's a tooltip. — Lfdder (talk) 19:32, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Diacritic Marks
The sounds attributed to the Mandarin Chinese Pinyin diacritic marks under the section "Diacritic Marks" disagrees with the Pinyin article page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin). Please address.

Tiancheng.wang (talk) 02:08, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
 * This issue is thoroughly confusing as Pinyin uses the same diacritics as IPA, but with a different meaning. However, as far as I can tell, the two articles agree with each other (modulo the fact that the Pinyin article employs tone letters instead of the equivalent tone diacritics in its IPA transcriptions, presumably to alleviate the aforementioned confusion).—Emil J. 16:00, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

z
zoos for z is partially wrong, isn't it? IMHO it should be zoo. --Volker Alexander (talk) 18:23, 9 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Zoos is /'zu:z/. — kwami (talk) 20:00, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

IPA font
Hi,

I propose to use one of the available web fonts for IPA, probably Gentium. See MediaWiki talk:Common.css.

Thanks for your comments. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:14, 25 August 2013 (UTC)


 * What specifically do you propose? — kwami (talk) 20:15, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Polish example [tɕ] and French one of [u]
I would just like to point out that Polish 'ciebie' is you, singular, accusative, and French vous is plural you, if that's of any importance. It doesn't say that in the article. 87.205.175.249 (talk) 16:06, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

c
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 * Arabic عربي (carabī) "Arabic"
 * A light sound deep in the throat.

I think there is a mistake with c. I don't see this symbol as a diacritic or otherwise (it doesn't seem to be a phoneme or a symbol in the consonant table) on the IPA chart from the externalink.174.3.125.23 (talk) 05:23, 18 January 2014 (UTC)


 * It's not IPA, just transliteration. — kwami (talk) 07:19, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh. Then the parentheses shouldn't be italized....174.3.125.23 (talk) 22:01, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Yellow check.svg Partly done:. I removed the parentheses completely. None of the other transcriptions seem to have them. --User:Anon126 (talk - contribs) 07:23, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah, great if not better solution174.3.125.23 (talk) 10:20, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

dz
I think the example of English adze for [dz] is problematic. adze is an obscure word that would not be familiar to most English speakers. However, as far as I can tell, it is homophonous to adds, which is a common English word. I suggest changing the sample word to adds, or at least another word that is not as obscure as adze. --2001:388:608C:6902:DCEE:EC4C:4515:C5F7 (talk) 06:18, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done  Anon 126   (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 16:10, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Slovenian
Where is the IPA help page for Slovenian language?--2.245.241.207 (talk) 19:47, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
 * We don't have one. You're free to make one, though. — kwami (talk) 20:02, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I made it 5 months ago: Help:IPA for Slovene. Peter238 (v̥ɪˑzɪʔ mɑˑɪ̯ tˢʰoˑk̚ pʰɛˑɪ̯d̥ʒ̊) 17:58, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

y-like
What does y-like mean?--2.246.25.83 (talk) 08:23, 28 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Palatal. Reworded.  — kwami (talk) 20:15, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Or palatalised. Peter238 (v̥ɪˑzɪʔ mɑˑɪ̯ tˢʰoˑk̚ pʰɛˑɪ̯d̥ʒ̊) 18:19, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Rendering issue on Android
This is what Dagesh looks like on my phone (Chrome and anything that uses the WebView component (e.g. Naked Browser), Android 4.4 on Motorola Moto X). The IPA in the table is contained in the IPA template, which is supposed to force use of a font that makes the IPA comprehensible. In particular, it should make (Latin lower case x, for voiceless velar fricative) distinct from  (Greek lower case chi, for voiceless uvular fricative). This is likely a shortcoming of Android's font system or available fonts, but it unfortunately does make some Wikipedia pages appear incorrect. Hairy Dude (talk) 13:05, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Notification of MFD discussion
Some of the IPA help pages have been nominated for deletion. Input is welcome at Miscellany for deletion/IPA for X. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:18, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Pronunciation of "r", especially in Netherlandish or "Dutch"
I am not willing to change the contents of this page immediately, because I want to avoid interference, but... the pronunciation of "r" in Netherlandish -a language often incorrectly called "Dutch" (which really is an old word for German)- is not at all like the [R] suggested here in this Wikipedia article: it is way too guttural. When you pronounce r in Netherlandish like that, then you are most likely a Moroccan or maybe a person from Amsterdam of Sefardi descent. NB In German "r" is never pronounced like this guttural [R]! Nowadays Netherlandish "r" aproaches a "w", which is called "Gooise R". Gooise is derived from Het Gooi, the area around Hilversum, close to Amsterdam, where television and radio broadcast facilities are concentrated. My father used to pronounce "r" as a typical German "r" like Ashkenazim do as well. My family and clan are Roman-Catholic "border Germans" of Jewish descent. Amand Keultjes (talk) 12:41, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Easy copy / paste of symbols
Please justify your edit in which you deleted the duplicate column of symbols. The reason there needs to be a duplicate column is that the IPA symbols of the first column are difficult (impossible) to select with a mouse or cursor in order to copy and paste said symbol into a template. —Boruch Baum (talk) 19:28, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Criterion for inclusion of symbols
After I had removed ɧ, there ensued a little disagreement over which letters to include, with User:Erutuon pointing out that ʙ didn't even have an example. I agreed and removed that, too, but on second thought I realize that that symbol is far more common; our article lists 15 languages from very diverse language families that use it. I am therefore tempted to put it back in, but I don't revert well-intended editors as a matter of principle. What criterion can we agree on?

BTW, if we do want to keep ɧ, I think it should be under "H", rather than "S", since it rather resembles a lower case "h". &mdash; Sebastian 07:22, 8 December 2015 (UTC)


 * I reverted to note the fact that the Swedish sj-sound at least occurs in a well-known language. All the languages with the bilabial trill are pretty obscure, except for Ubykh and Pirahã.


 * I'm not sure what criterion has been used on this page in the past, but a criterion that would make sense to me is whether the symbols are used in transcriptions on Wikipedia, especially of the native-language forms of article names (persons or places, for instance). Not sure how often is used on Wikipedia (I couldn't find any transcriptions when I searched for articles starting with sj-), but at least Swedish is a well-known language and the symbol might be used somewhere.  is much rarer and might never be used. So based on this criterion I just came up with, I would include  and not.


 * I'm not going to argue more strenuously for it, because I don't care that much. I don't mind you reverting me, since I just wanted to make sure to give my opinion in the edit summary. As you say, at least the symbol is listed in the Swedish IPA page, and that's where someone should be looking anyway. Given that you've also removed tones, which are similarly language-specific, perhaps the sj-sound should be removed too.


 * I agree about putting with the h-symbols, if it is included; it looks more aitchy to me too. — Eru·tuon 08:21, 8 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the suggestion of the criterion to use existing articles; I agree that that is a very pertinent criterion for whether a symbol requires IPA help. In that light, it also makes sense what you're saying about [ʙ] being only used in "obscure" languages. My counting of language families may mean more to a linguist, but a linguist would use the main IPA article, anyway; that's not the target audience for this help file.


 * Thank you also for providing the search link. I'm not putting too much significance to the fact that the articles currently have IPA pronunciation; they may get one in due time.


 * I don't think any criterion has been used on this article in the past. I do think it matters if a symbol is only used in languages that already have specific IPA help, because then there is no direct need to include it in the general help. The main remaining possible argument is completeness of the list. While we currently don't strive to be complete, it seems you would prefer that. I didn't have that goal, because I often feel at Wikipedia that too much information is duplicated. But I admit that it is conceivably justified to have both these lists in parallel, because they have significant differences:
 * they are ordered differently. The alphabetical sequence of this help makes it worthwhile for non-linguists.
 * explanations here are (or could be) more simplistic. E.g. for [ɧ], we could just write something to the effect that it's OK to pronounce it as [∫].
 * A further benefit of completeness is that it would free us from having to discuss inclusion criteria. If you want to invest time in going that way, I won't object. &mdash; Sebastian 09:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)



IPA help requests
Please add a link to where one can ask for help with adding IPA or where one can ask for IPA transcriptions, which many people hope to find here (and only find help in the other direction). For example, shud one go to the village pump or the help desk or the Arabic and Persian pages or portals to get the nonsense "pronunciations" i.e. incomprehensible transcriptions fixed on Zahra_(name)? --Espoo (talk) 23:14, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

New recordings
It would be of value to have new recordings of many of these sounds. A lot of the vowels were recorded by someone who a) is dragging them out in the English-like way; b) slightly diphthongizing several of them in way that also sounds English-centric; and c) has a curious rapid-fire vibrato at the end of vowels, making it unnecessarily difficult to isolate the unique sound of the phoneme from the individual's unusual voice timbre. Like, his pronunciation of /e/ sounds like the Fonze, "ayeee..."  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  01:41, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I hear no problem with the recording of . The speaker seems to, to a certain extent, change the quality of his voice (perhaps towards creaky voice? I'd transcribe it in the IPA) towards the end of the recording, but that's pretty much it. The quality of the vowel sounds consistent. If there's an offglide at all (which I don't hear), its quality is extremely similar to the first portion of the vowel. Peter238 (talk) 02:51, 22 February 2016 (UTC)


 * I think I might hear very slight diphthongization in the direction of, but it's hard to tell because of the falling pitch (what you two call vibrato and creaky voice) at the end. Even if there isn't, the creakiness is somewhat irritating, and I wouldn't vote against it being re-recorded. I agree that many recordings need improvement. The recording of sounds too central. That's also because of English-centrism, since English  is usually . I already re-recorded  because it was postalveolar like the English r. (Unfortunately, it now sounds irritating, as if I have a lisp. But at least it's truly alveolar.) — Eru·tuon 08:32, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Yep, is slightly too front. Peter238 (talk) 14:12, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree that [ʌ] is too near to central. [ɹ] sounds OK - the vowels are slightly odd, but they aren't important. [i] sounds OK to me; [e] is slightly too close, I think. The creaky voice is symptomatic of a high level of vocal tension. Ideally, all the vowel recordings should be checked acoustically for steady and appropriate formant frequencies. Saying the vowel on a moving pitch (as done here) helps with resolving formants on a spectrogram. There are a few issues concerning English-centrism: there doesn't seem to be a stated policy about whether or not illustrations of voiceless plosives should be aspirated or unaspirated, and there is a tendency in some recordings for [ʃ, ʒ, tʃ, dʒ, ɹ] to be produced with lip-rounding in English style. I can't see why long and short versions of vowels are presented - they all sound the same to me, and the IPA has never set a standard length for vowels. I have quite a lot of comments and suggestions for improvement on (about half of) the individual segments and the descriptions of them. I'm not sure how to present these - maybe I could set them out in my sandbox, or on my personal website. RoachPeter (talk) 16:26, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * You can simply list them here (or perhaps in a new section). Peter238 (talk) 16:52, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, but just for a start, I've put the table in my [| sandbox] with my comments in the right-hand column. Please note that I'm not claiming to be right on these points. What I have written should be taken as comments and statements about possible improvements, based on 36 years of teaching this stuff. I'm happy to make some recordings where it's felt necessary. RoachPeter (talk) 19:45, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree that and possibly  (don't know about, I thought it was good) don't sound accurate. Looking at the file histories, I've found these:
 * Close central unrounded vowel
 * Close-mid front unrounded vowel
 * Open back rounded vowel
 * What do you think, Peter? We can restore them any time we want. Peter238 (talk) 21:39, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, will have a listen and do some spectrograms when I have a bit more time. I would certainly be in favour of having [ɒ]. You may well be right about [a] - it's something of a controversial area; I think my own version is extremely front. I'm not clear, by the way, about the relationship between the vowels in this Help article and those attached to the Cardinal Vowel diagram in International Phonetic Alphabet - are there any differences in the recordings? RoachPeter (talk) 17:33, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not that good with our templates, but looking at how Template:IPA chart/table vowels with audio is written, it seems to use the same audio files as those specified on Module:IPA symbol/data. This article seems to (at least to a large extent) use the same file names that are listed on Module:IPA symbol/data, so I think there are hardly any (if any at all) differences. Peter238 (talk) 20:22, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

I've had a go at making some new recordings and putting them into a copy of this table (very incompetently, but I'm learning). I haven't put in a new row for the open back rounded vowel, which is missing, but my recording is at []. The rest are in the r.h. column in my sandbox [], along with various observations. Any comments, criticisms etc would be very welcome. RoachPeter (talk) 09:56, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Cão de Gado Transmontano
Could somebody do the IPA on the name of this dog? Please. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 17:44, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Someone already did, but the IPA was a bit off. I've just corrected it. Mr KEBAB (talk) 14:27, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

RfC: proposing (in part) to remove IPA from the lead
There is currently an RfC proposing removing many things from parentheticals in the lead, including IPA. Please join in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section. Curly "JFC" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 06:18, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Converting individual help pages for the various languages into subpages of Help:IPA

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Moved.There are certain minimal reader benefits. Winged Blades Godric 11:39, 27 July 2017 (UTC) (non-admin closure)  Winged Blades Godric  11:39, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

– Move all the key pages to sub pages of this main help page. For example I think this will benefit editors doing ongoing organization and maintenance in the overall Help: namespace.NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 19:55, 13 July 2017 (UTC) --Relisting. bd2412  T 15:26, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Help:IPA for Afrikaans would become Help:IPA/Afrikaans
 * Help:IPA for Zulu to Help:IPA/Zulu

Survey

 * Support – Lots of work but probably worth it in the long run, like other collections organized hierarchically. PS: I would suggest that the nominator outline a task list in advance to make sure the move goes smoothly if approved. The work should probably be split among several volunteers. — JFG talk 17:57, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak support - I don't have any strong feelings towards either solution. Mr KEBAB (talk) 18:04, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Support, for better organization of topics and subtopics within the project. bd2412  T 15:27, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Oppose. That would be about 120 page moves, not counting their talk pages etc, and the current system works OK. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:37, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Support. While I don't see a tremendously compelling reason to do it, I don't see a reason not to do it either. The subpage structure helps indicate the keys are under the same overarching category, like the MOSes. Nardog (talk) 23:03, 20 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Oppose until someone can provide a rationale that involves a benefit for readers. —  AjaxSmack  00:16, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Support Resulting pages will be easier to search.—azuki (talk · contribs · email) 08:11, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Added the tag so others will be notified. I for one see no reason not to do it, but let's see. I would also like if you could explain what specifically the "ongoing organization and maintenance in the overall Help: namespace" you're referring to, if any. Nardog (talk) 16:09, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Holy crap, that's some watchlist spam :P I'm indifferent to the change, as I don't quite understand why you want to perform it at all. Mr KEBAB (talk) 16:23, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I kind of dislike modifying the tables from plain English (removing the "for"), but I second Nardog's request for more explanation. — Eru·tuon 17:08, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Not being familiar with subpages, does it create corresponding subpages for talk? Or is there going to be just one "talk:IPA"? &minus;Woodstone (talk) 13:50, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I think so, otherwise this proposal would make little sense. Mr KEBAB (talk) 13:55, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes.NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 16:13, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Is that "yes, it does create corresponding subpages for talk", or "yes, there is going to be just one talk page"?--Klausok (talk) 06:20, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Of course the former. When moving a page the existing talk page will automatically be moved along with the main page unless you opt out (and even if there is no existing talk anyone can create one). That is expected by default with any kind of page move (unless there's a special reason not to do it), and not even specific to this case. Nardog (talk) 07:09, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Proposer responds to "Why?"
 * (A)This is all about maintenance of the namespace, organization of the material, and proper templating.  My motivation applies to any group of like pages.  IPA just happened to be the first one that I focused on.  And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the IPA pages.  What I *am* saying is that the namespace is vast and the task of keeping on an eye on day-by-day management is huge.  I'm proposing this here as a trial, to identify major points of view/issues etc, to see if their are drawbacks beyond IDONTLIKE, to see if their are benefits from the point of view of topical editors (like you), and finally size up the work involved compared to the benefit gained of "sub-paging".  I can think of two benefits to namespace reviewers and they are -


 * (B) Some search tools allow suppression of sub pages from lists of hits. That would be enormously useful when reviewing massive numbers of pages for proper categorization/templating etc


 * (C)Another matinenance benefit that doesn't really apply here is that related pages aren't necessary alpha-sequential like the IPA pages. So sub paging them would give search results some organization by topic.  But as I said that's inapplicable to IPA which already appear in order when the hits are returned alphabetically


 * (D)From your point of view, are there any ways this could help/hurt?

Thanks for feedback NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 16:12, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment it is a lot of work to move all those pages. If this is closed as a move will you do the work of moving them? -- PBS (talk) 11:47, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Good question! (A) Yes I'll do it, provided the task isn't overwhelming, but (B) first,  made a good suggestion of charting the tasks involved.  I probably don't know enough to realize the whole picture, but I'll take a stab at it and other can add as they can think of things.  (I sound like its a done deal, I apologize.  I realize its still under discussion.)
 * (1) Move the pages (the talk pages move automatically and originals are automatically turned into redirs)
 * (2) Update Category:International_Phonetic_Alphabet_help
 * (3) Update Template:IPA_keys
 * (4) anything else?
 * NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 00:03, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Apropos of talks, if we were to make the move, it is ideal that we move the talk archives as well, which can be a pain in the butt (or perhaps a bot can do it). Nardog (talk) 07:09, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, I think AWB and regex can be of some help.


 * Doesn't talk page archives(subpages of talk-page) also get automatically moved?Subpage-move is by default checked. Winged Blades Godric 09:52, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
 * That seems to be a privilege of the Page movers. So maybe we should ask someone who has that privilege (such as yourself) to move the pages should the proposal gain a consensus. Nardog (talk) 14:24, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I have relisted this, not because I think there is an absence of consensus, but because a change of this scope should be based on more substantial participation than has occurred to this point. bd2412  T 15:27, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

While I'm at it, is everybody here content with the fact that these pages are in the Help namespace rather than the Wikipedia namespace? (See also above.) I'm actually ambivalent about this, because while the keys are in fact there to help the readers, they (especially the language-specific keys) are also kind of policies or guidelines for editors because they govern what symbols IPA notations in encyclopedic articles for each language must use and reflect the consensus at each key. Nardog (talk) 23:24, 20 July 2017 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
 * So... are you going to move the pages? Nardog (talk) 21:52, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

In response to 's question: I think there is an argument for moving the IPA pages for particular languages back to the Wikipedia namespace. (They used to be there. I don't know why they were moved to the Help namespace.) They function as policy to some extent, at least the more well-developed ones. I've done edits to bring IPA transcriptions of a particular language in articles into agreement with the IPA help page for that language. But the IPA help pages are more in flux than typical policy pages, and they aren't voted on.... maybe that's why they were moved. — Eru·tuon 00:14, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Tuineau Alipate
Can someone add the IPA to Tuineau Alipate. I would but it looks complicated. It's pronounced "too-NOW allah-POT-tay" per this article. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 00:50, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. Mr KEBAB (talk) 01:07, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 01:09, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Diphthongs
A few days ago I was asked if I could add diphthongs to this page, but I'm not sure if that's a very good idea. On the other hand, we seem to use rather broad transcription here, and the lead says ''For each IPA symbol, an English example is given where possible; here "RP" stands for Received Pronunciation. The foreign languages that are used to illustrate additional sounds are primarily the ones most likely to be familiar to English speakers, French, Standard German, and Spanish.'' So we could list just the diphthongs of the traditional RP (plus GA ) and standard German. These would be. We could change to  on Help:IPA/Standard German and Standard German phonology by the way. It's simpler and that's what the latest edition of Duden's Das Aussprachewörterbuch uses.

If there won't be any objections I'll add them in a few days. Mr KEBAB (talk) 04:46, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

We can also add as these are frequently encountered in transcriptions of RP/GA. Mr KEBAB (talk) 04:58, 25 September 2017 (UTC)


 * I certainly do object to including diphthongs in this page. The page is meant to describe the IPA symbols as defined by the corresponding organisation. Diphthongs are not part of their definitions. Starting to include how combinations of symbols would be pronounced together is an open entry to infinite expansion. &minus;Woodstone (talk) 05:13, 25 September 2017 (UTC)


 * On the other hand though, the relation of diphthongs to simple monophthongal vowels is very similar to the relation of affricates to simple oral stops, yet we do include affricates here. If we could moderate the amount and the type of diphthongs that are included here (basically: only RP, GA and Standard German diphthongs in broad transcription), they wouldn't clutter the page. Perhaps including would be an overkill, but I don't see much harm in adding . Mr KEBAB (talk) 05:18, 25 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Diphthongs are pretty much an open-ended class. If you start adding diphthongs from one language, then other language’s speakers will want to add their diphthongs as well. There are no phonetic reasons why certain combinations of sounds count as a unit. Instead, these reasons root in the phonology of a specific language. Therefore, we should not add them here, but on the dedicated page about the transriptions of certain languages, such as Help:IPA/English, Help:IPA/Standard German, Help:IPA/Spanish, etc.


 * Same goes for the affricates. I would favour removing the (very uneven selection of) affricates from this page. --mach &#x1f648;&#x1f649;&#x1f64a; 06:10, 25 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Several of the affricates ([ts, tʃ, ɕ, dz, dʒ, dʑ) have a somewhat different standing, because they are officially defined (as ligatures) in the IPA handbook. &minus;Woodstone (talk) 08:51, 25 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Don’t have access to the IPA handbook right now, but according to Wikipedia ☺, the affricate ligatures ⟨ʦ, ʣ, ʧ, ʤ, ʨ, ʥ⟩ are deprecated (or are they not?). I suggest we remove the affricates from the regular list and instead mention the affricate ligatures in the section about affricates. Conveniently, it already exists, so we do not need to make a whole new section along the lines of “deprecated characters”. --mach &#x1f648;&#x1f649;&#x1f64a; 09:12, 25 September 2017 (UTC)


 * You are confusing this article with the one in article space. The latter has the separate affricate table. Since the IPA organisation defines these affricates explicitly, there is ground to keep them here as well. The deprecation is one of convenience because of on-line technical difficulties, but they still have a name and number. I would personally not be against removing them, but I think it's better to stick with the official list, to avoid endless discussions. None of the diphthongs are listed. &minus;Woodstone (talk) 09:51, 25 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Where does the IPA explicitly define the affricates? It seems to me that it is only Wikipedia that explicitly (and unsourcedly) defines them in International Phonetic Alphabet. On the IPA number chart, there are no numbers for the affricates. I also think it is best to stick to the official lists, which means removing the affricates. --mach &#x1f648;&#x1f649;&#x1f64a; 12:04, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Look under 'other symbols'. I'm also surprised by your (y'all's) rather narrow set of criteria by which you want to remove affricates from this list. The IPA is not the final authority on sounds. They've contributed a lot to the research on pronunciation, that's true. But they're not the one and only reputable source which we must follow. Read e.g. section 3.3 of The Sounds of the World's Languages. Plus, there are much fewer possible affricates that are in any way common than diphthongs. Mr KEBAB (talk) 23:12, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Look under 'other symbols'. Where? The IPA is not the final authority on sounds. The IPA is not the final authority on sounds, but it is indeed the final authority on the IPA. This page is very clearly about the IPA, not on “sounds”. I am all in favour of describing the IPA according to the IPA. --mach &#x1f648;&#x1f649;&#x1f64a; 05:38, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry, on the number chart. Are you really arguing for removing the affricates because they're not defined by the IPA itself? This is really strange. What about the illustrations of the IPA in the Handbook of the IPA? Mr KEBAB (talk) 08:14, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't have a problem with adding diphthongs or affricates, though I do see the potential problem of bloat that others have brought up. Perhaps just a handful of illustrative examples from English would be sufficient to give readers the idea behind how representations of diphthongs and affricates work.
 * And, regarding changing to  on Help:IPA/Standard German and Standard German phonology, that should be brought up in those respective talk pages. — Æµ§œš¹  [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt]  13:11, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's exactly what I meant (we already have a few affricates on the list by the way).
 * Will do, but I think a thread on Help talk:IPA/Standard German will be sufficient. I'll link to it from Talk:Standard German phonology. Mr KEBAB (talk) 23:12, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't think there is consensus to start adding entries that are not defined by the IPA to this article named after it. &minus;Woodstone (talk) 09:21, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * "Will do" was about starting a discussion about using the symbol instead of . Mr KEBAB (talk) 09:24, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * This page should be giving a general idea of what each symbol represents. Since diphthongs are always defined by the phonology of a given language, I don't think they are within its scope. Whenever a question arises, you can always refer to the specific key for the relevant language (Help:IPA/...).
 * As for affricates, I think the ones currently listed (perhaps except the retroflex ones) are frequent enough across languages that it is reasonable to have them here, especially since it is often counterintuitive for laypeople that they aren't single sounds, which is generally not the case for diphthongs. Nardog (talk) 09:42, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you mean by "diphthongs are always defined by the phonology of a given language." How is that different from any other vowel? Are you saying diphthongs are a category purely in the arena of phonology and not phonetics? — Æµ§œš¹  [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt] 19:04, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I was referring to whether a sequence of two vowels is two different phonemes or one. Monophthongs are at least defined in the IPA, though their usages vary. Which is true for affricates as well, but it doesn't take much to understand [aɪ] stands for a combination of vowels pronounced somewhere near [a] and [ɪ], while it might for some to understand [tʃ] stands for the sound of church. Nardog (talk) 19:20, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Iheanyi Uwaezuoke
Can someone add the IPA to Iheanyi Uwaezuoke. It has a note saying it needs an IPA. Thanks WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 00:16, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Contradiction in Help:IPA/Inuktitut
The table on the Help subpage for Inuktitut includes the following:
 * Stress
 * ˈ
 * Primary stress on penultimate syllable (placed before the stressed syllable). The stress is always on the last syllable.

The second line contains the IPA primary stress mark ( &#x02c8; ). Since "penultimate" means "next to last", "Primary stress on penultimate syllable" directly contradicts "The stress is always on the last syllable." IPA places stress marks before the affected syllable rather than after, as many English sources do: for example,
 * homework
 * hōm&#x2032;wûrk&#x2032;
 * (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edn., 2000. ISBN 0395825172)

The writer was probably trying to describe the placement of the symbol, but instead created a hopeless tangle, not comprehensible in any consistent way.

According to this forum page on Unilang Inuktitut probably does not have distinctive stress at all, regardless of how it may sound to an American English-speaker. Many languages do not have distinctive stress. French, for example, has none, though Americans often perceive some apparent stress on the last syllable, possibly by comparison with English, in which the last syllable is often unstressed.

This should be resolved by someone knowledgeable about the language and the sources.

--Thnidu (talk) 04:30, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Don't confuse phonemic stress contrast with an absence of stress. French does indeed have stress where American English speakers hear it, but it's non-contrastive. — Æµ§œš¹  [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt] 15:49, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you.
 * Yes, politeness is very important. Have I violated that? --Thnidu (talk) 08:36, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * That's just their signature.
 * If stress isn't contrastive in a given language, then I don't see why we'd need it in the IPA for that language. That would be like including tones in English notations. So the stress on Help:IPA/French can go too, in fact most notations linking to that key don't have it. Nardog (talk) 11:51, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * The same applies to Help:IPA/Hungarian, Help:IPA/Icelandic, Help:IPA/Czech, Help:IPA/Slovak and the future IPA guide for Faroese. But if reputable sources include stress in their transcriptions, maybe it should stay. Mr KEBAB (talk) 12:23, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I disagree. Non-contrastive stress is still something that is an important feature of a language, especially for a phonetic guide. French, for example, has some instances of penultimate stress. It's still non-contrastive and fully predictable, but we transcribe it because those not familiar with the pattern will need it. — Æµ§œš¹  [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt] 15:40, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Hm, I guess you have a point there. If a word ends with a reduced syllable, that's one reason to include stress in the notation.
 * Going back to Inuktitut though, is the note supposed to mean that the stress need not be included when it falls on the last syllable, which it (almost) always does, but it need be if it falls on the penultimate syllable? I wonder what meant by it. Nardog (talk) 16:16, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * In my 14:46, September 14, 2012, edit, I used the edit summary "copied over the Mayan IPA as a template and added a citation", and I originally put three question marks "???" next to the stress ( ' ) symbol in that edit. In that same 14:46, September 14, 2012 edit, I added the Inuktitut syllabary at Omniglot as a citation. Later, in my 15:40, September 14, 2012, edit, I removed the stress ( ' ) symbol with the edit summary "took off unused parts from copy of Mayan IPA help". Later, in my 16:40 September 14, 2012, edit, I added the stress symbol ( ' ) back, and I wrote in the article, ""Primary stress on penultimate syllable (placed before the stressed syllable). The stress is always on the last syllable.", with the edit summary "added stress to chart". I checked the October 25, 2012, archived copy of Inuktitut syllabary at Omniglot at the Wayback Machine to see if I was basing that statement on something from that web page, but I do not see information about the stress symbol ( ' ) there. I do not know why I added the stress symbol ( ' ) back, and I do not know why I wrote, "Primary stress on penultimate syllable (placed before the stressed syllable). The stress is always on the last syllable." In the 04:30 January 11, 2018 edit by User:Thnidu, User:Thindu wrote, "The writer was probably trying to describe the placement of the symbol, but instead created a hopeless tangle, not comprehensible in any consistent way." After checking the definition of the word "penultimate" as meaning "second to the last" right now, I am even further confused as to why I would write, "Primary stress on penultimate syllable (placed before the stressed syllable). The stress is always on the last syllable.". After considering User:Thindu's analysis, I agree with User:Thindu when that user wrote, "The writer was probably trying to describe the placement of the symbol...", since I put "(placed before the stressed syllable)" in parentheses. Regardless of what I meant which is not clear even to me and why I added it there which is also not clear even to me, I have removed it in a January 12 18:18, 2018, edit with the edit summary, "I removed the section about stress per discussion at Help talk:IPA."--Ephert (talk) 18:24, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing that, and for explaining the history here.

, : I agree with that it's important to indicate phonetic stress even when it's nondistinctive. Hungarian is an excellent example:
 * Primary stress is always on the first syllable of a word, as in the related Finnish languages and in the neighbouring languages Slovak and Czech. There is secondary stress on other syllables in compounds, e.g. viszontlátásra ("goodbye") pronounced.

Since primary stress is always predictable, it's not phonemic. But it is clearly perceptible, presumably to Hungarians as well as others. For example, if an English-speaker speaking Hungarian stressed Amerika on the second syllable, as in English America, a Hungarian would be sure to find it odd even if everything else in the pronunciation (notably the vowels written $⟨a⟩$) were correct.

(By the way, that stress mark is not an ASCII straight apostrophe, it's U+02C8, typeable as . And my username is Thdu, not Th in du. It's odd for English, and that's deliberate: I'm a linguist, and that's sort of a professional joke. Even my wife could hardly ever get it right. :-) ) --Thnidu (talk) 23:06, 12 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Word stress in Hungarian and some of the other languages mentioned above is only predictable if you already know where word boundaries are, as speakers do. However it is an important and sometimes indispensable clue for listeners to detect word boundaries. Love —LiliCharlie (talk) 23:56, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Is the Nahuatl page right?
Help:IPA/Nahuatl says that ɬ, the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative, is equivalent in English to the "l" in "play". However, unless I've misunderstood something, the "l" in play is an alveolar lateral approximant, rather than a fricative. Is something wrong here? I thought I'd ask here, I know a fair amount about phonetics but I'm still an amateur.-- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 02:54, 2 March 2018 (UTC)


 * See Approximant consonant, particularly the second paragraph. Love —LiliCharlie (talk) 15:01, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Help:IPA/Malayalam pronunciations accurate?
The IPA pronunciations on the Help:IPA/Malayalam page conflict with the pronunciations provided by the TEMU Malayalam Phonetic Archive. Should the wikipedia page be edited to reflect this? If so, should the current pronunciations be changed or should the reported pronunciations be added to the existing examples? Agoramachina (talk) 01:47, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Skagway, Alaska
I don’t really “speak” IPA and there seems to be a slow-mo dispute over the IPA spelling of this city. Every time I have ever heard it said, it is pronounced exact;y like you would think from the spelling, with the a pronounced the same as it would be in “slag” or “bag”. One user seems to be arguing that there is a local dialect and that /ˈskeɪɡweɪ/ is actually the correct IPA spelling. Like I said, not super familiar with IPA and really don’t know how to determine whose right here. ‘Lil help? Beeblebrox (talk) 02:59, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I assume what Molandfreak is talking about is /æ/ raising. If a dialect "doesn't differentiate between eɪg and æg", then it means /æ/ is consistently and predictably pronounced the same as /eɪ/ before /ɡ/ in that dialect. And if so, since IPAc-en is dialect-neutral (see H:IPAE and WP:PRON), /æɡ/ is correct. Nardog (talk) 03:22, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that, I'm not entirely familiar with Wikipedia's rules on IPA. I was under the impression that it was centered around the geographical dialect for geographical features and cities.-- Molandfreak  (talk,   contribs,  email) 03:39, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, you can see an explanation for it at Help:IPA/English. The logic of being dialect-neutral in even cases like this is that people outside the local region will still use the word and pronounce it in their own dialect. — Æµ§œš¹ <span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA"> [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt] 14:36, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

long vowels
what's the point of listing long vowels if they link to the same audio file as the short vowels? that may even do more bad than good if people want to compare the difference and don't notice that both files are the same LICA98 (talk) 05:43, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Vowel length is something that is language-dependent. It doesn't work exactly the same way in English, Dutch, Icelandic or Standard German (notice that these are from the same language group!). You cannot "compare the difference" because there aren't any prototypical short and long vowels, the length varies depending on the language, dialect, stress and phonetic environment. It's a very complex issue. Kbb2 (ex. Mr KEBAB) (talk) 15:07, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's pretty misleading to alternate long and short vowels in a cross-linguistic context like this page. For the duplicate audio links I don't think it would be controversial to remove them. Should we remove all the long vowels from the list altogether too? Nardog (talk) 15:17, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I have nothing against that. Kbb2 (ex. Mr KEBAB) (talk) 15:23, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Complete transcriptions for the sample words
For this page and its language-specific subpages such as Help:IPA/Spanish, won't it be better if complete IPA transcriptions are given for the sample words? Compare the current version with this proposed version:

With only isolated IPA symbols and no actually transcribed words, it may be harder for the reader to understand the correlation between transcription and orthography, and how transcription works in general. --Theurgist (talk) 02:59, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
 * A point of clarification. The example words are more for editors, not readers. A reader is someone who has already seen an IPA transcription and come to the help page for clarification on the symbols.
 * My worry is that the words and transcriptions can make the tables become cluttered. We could, perhaps, use the mouse over feature if other people share this concern. — Æµ§œš¹ <span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA"> [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt] 03:39, 7 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Additionally, there is a certain circular element in describing IPA with more IPA. The grounding should be in real words as known to the reader.&minus;Woodstone (talk) 04:37, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Also, it is not clear how to deal with variation. Certainly not everybody in the Spanish-speaking world pronounces fútbol with a voiceless ; why should editors transcribe and omit other pronunciations that are equally possible and frequent? Love —LiliCharlie (talk) 05:01, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
 * It's easier to transcribe all words that link to the help guide in the way that we say they are transcribed. The intralanguage variation is great enough (particularly if you want to get narrow in your transcriptions) that a language-specific help guide would be unwieldy if we actually accommodated that variation. It's perhaps simplistic to stick with one variant, but it's not wrong. — Æµ§œš¹ <span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA"> [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt] 20:20, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Help IPA page for Telugu
Hi all. I found this useful chart that lists the IPA for Telugu alphabets. Currently, there's no Help:IPA/Telugu to my knowledge, so if anyone can tabulate this, it would be a great help. 31.215.113.175 (talk) 16:33, 14 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Does this contain anything not found in our article Telugu script? — Cf. Telugu language with the slightly different symbols instead of . Love —LiliCharlie (talk) 18:10, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

In-browser synthesis
I'd argue there is value in adding an in-browser synthesis of the word, something like the itinerarium project? rmacd (talk) 11:32, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Ecclesiastical Latin pronunciation
Nardog (talk) 06:31, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Unused language-specific IPA help pages
The list of Help:IPA/X IPA guides is cluttered with pages that are completely unused. Here's a list, with the length of time that these pages have existed: There are also two of these that are linked to by only one page, the page that describes the language being transcribed: The demand for these pages is so low, that for several of them (Dothraki, Guarani, and Kouri-Vini) there isn't even a dedicated transcription template (e.g. IPA-tr that would link to them.
 * Help:IPA/Dothraki 3 years
 * Help:IPA/Saterland Frisian 3 years
 * Help:IPA/Paraguayan Guarani 6 years
 * Help:IPA/Judaeo-Spanish 4 years
 * Help:IPA/Kannada 1 year
 * Help:IPA/Kashmiri 4 years
 * Help:IPA/Kouri-Vini 3 years
 * Help:IPA/Laz 4 years
 * Help:IPA/Manchu 3 years
 * Help:IPA/Mingrelian 4 years
 * Help:IPA/Oromo 3 years
 * Help:IPA/Ossetic 2 years
 * Help:IPA/Svan 4 years
 * Help:IPA/Wandamen 2 years
 * Help:IPA/Klingon 4 years
 * Help:IPA/Aramaic 4 years


 * Pinging the creators of the templates in question:, , , , , , , ,

IMHO, we should redirect all of these existing unused pages to Help:IPA. We should also probably outline a procedure for the creation of these new pages wherein the transcription template is created first with a link to Help:IPA. When a sufficient demand is established for a dedicated page, then we can create the language-specific help page and have the transcription template link to the newly created help page. Thoughts? — Æµ§œš¹ <span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA"> [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt] 04:46, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd say redirect them all to Help:IPA. Retrieving the guides will be very easy should we ever need to do that. Kbb2 (ex. Mr KEBAB) (talk) 04:59, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Instructing editors to make a template first and then the corresponding key once it's used by enough articles is also a very good idea. That probably belongs to Manual of Style/Pronunciation.
 * (Tangentially, I've for some time thought that these language-specific keys should be regarded as supplements to the MoS—since they are, in addition to providing help for readers, guidelines for editors which reflect consensus—and be slapped with Supplement instead of Information page or Wikipedia how-to. But that might entail moving the pages yet again.) Nardog (talk) 06:14, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Ok, I've merged them all to Help:IPA. I've also modified the wording of Manual of Style/Pronunciation; feel free to check/tweak it to your liking. — Æµ§œš¹ <span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA"> [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt] 06:22, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Looking through some of the transcription templates used for languages without dedicated keys, there are a few that stand out as possibly needing said keys.
 * IPA-ady: Adyghe
 * IPA-fo: Faroese
 * IPA-kok: Konkani
 * IPA-ky: Kyrgyz
 * IPA-mnw: Mon
 * IPA-mr: Marathi
 * IPA-non: Old Norse
 * IPA-sal: Salish
 * IPA-sco: Scots
 * IPA-sga: Old Irish
 * IPA-wuu: Wu Chinese

In addition, we could possibly go through IPA-xx and IPA-art to see if there aren't more applicable templates. I suspect a bit of the latter could go to IPA-qya. — Æµ§œš¹ <span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA"> [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt] 20:04, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

IPA-iu and IPA-iku
There are IPA-iu and IPA-iku. Although  and   are both ISO 639 codes for Inuktitut, the former template by default shows "Inuit pronunciation" and the latter "Inuktitut pronunciation" while both linking to the same key, Help:IPA/Inuktitut. I'm not familiar with the situation, but it seems to me the template should be merged into IPA-iu for the sake of simplicity. However, I'm not sure if all of the current uses of IPA-iu are of Inuktitut or adhere to the key. Can you take a look into it? Nardog (talk) 20:54, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I went through and I think I was able to identify the instances where the templates were being misused or where a transcription had a character not in the chart. You're probably right about merging the two, but I'm a bit in the dark as to the specifics of the thinking behind having two templates. — Æµ§œš¹ <span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA"> [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt] 22:59, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I realize that both Template:IPA-iu and Help:IPA/Inuktitut were created by the same editor, Ephert. Hopefully they'll have an answer if they're still around. Nardog (talk) 12:15, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Redirected IPA-iku to IPA-iu and changed "Inuit" to "Inuktitut". I think I identified the cases where the template was not used for Inuktitut, which I replaced with IPA-all, but if I overlooked something please correct it. Nardog (talk) 16:03, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 January 2019
For ʌ please put "u as in but". IPA editor (talk) 16:45, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting wait.svg Already done "American English cut" is already there. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:02, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 January 2019 (2)
Change the description for β, from "Like [b], but with the lips not quite touching." to "Like [v], but with both lips instead of lips and teeth." The article says fricative, so we should describe a fricative, not an approximant. IPA editor (talk) 16:45, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:45, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Vowel samples revisited
A user suggested to me that we replace our audio samples of the following vowels with RoachPeter's (previous discussion). See this discussion for some context. FWIW, these other phoneticians' demonstrations must be of help. There is also this table of vowel formants I extracted from these recordings and some other sources some time ago, though I can't guarantee its accuracy. Plan to make the edit should no one contest in a few days. Nardog (talk) 12:21, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * None of these five new samples dramatically blows me away, though I do like how Roach's /ɒ/ and Current /ɔ/ show more pronounced differences than Current /ɒ/ versus Current /ɔ/. Wolfdog (talk) 14:03, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Current isn't cardinal, though. It's almost . Kbb2 (ex. Mr KEBAB) (talk) 17:01, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I remember you've argued that GenAm unmerged (i.e. ) is closer to cardinal  than  and, admittedly, as an unmerged GenAm speaker myself, Roach's  (just as well as Roach's ) works much better for to my ears for what GenAm allows for  than the Current  does. Wolfdog (talk) 19:49, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * In fact, now that I think about it, Current sounds closer to cardinal  and we could make the sample for such, while also making Roach's  the sample for cardinal . Wolfdog (talk) 19:52, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Current, while it may be , to me sounds too rounded to consider it an example of cardinal , which has only slight rounding (when you go from close to open rounded cardinal vowels, the former have the most rounding and the latter the least. I wonder whether the rounded vowels of Standard German aren't a textbook example of that, especially when you exclude and  from the equation). Kbb2 (ex. Mr KEBAB) (talk) 20:28, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't contest anything, Peter's recordings sounds either equally good or better than the current ones. Kbb2 (ex. Mr KEBAB) (talk) 17:01, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I slightly prefer Roach's recordings for better distinction between /ɒ/ and /ɔ/.--Megaman en m (talk) 17:10, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Roach’s recording sound better to me, especially his distinction, which is more fronted and more open than our current . By the IPA’s design, [a] should be the extreme open and front vowel. --mach &#x1f648;&#x1f649;&#x1f64a; 18:49, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅. Nardog (talk) 11:30, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Just realized Roach had also uploaded a falling-pitch version of, PR-open-mid back unrounded vowel2.ogg, like the others. I have replaced the version originally discussed, PR-open-mid back unrounded vowel.ogg, with the falling one in the implementation, but if there is any reason to prefer the other one, please discuss. Nardog (talk) 12:45, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

[o] pronunciation
[o] sounds like "bowl" or "bull"

But the description describes it as the sound in "no"  AltoStev  Talk 18:27, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Q&A
What is IPA for shr in shred MiniRoodey (talk) 09:44, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
 * /ʃr/. Wolfdog (talk) 12:49, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

How do i pronounce i with line

RfC on IPA for "Atreides" from the Dune universe
I could use helping confirming my usage of IPA from an experienced user at Talk:Dune (novel). Cheers, Jason Quinn (talk) 06:16, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Sound
I came to the page and other IPA pages hoping to find a way to play the sounds. For example, how do I pronounce kɬʊl.ɬu ? If there is a link which can play the sound we should put it in. Kelly222 (talk) 21:12, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
 * You may try IPA Reader, which is linked in § External links. Unfortunately it's language-dependent so you'd have to pick a language that has all the sounds in the transcription you're trying to hear, e.g. Welsh for . Nardog (talk) 05:10, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Colon
Wikipedia uses a colon in its IPA, see e.g. Andrew Carnegie. But this page does not explain, as far as I can find, what a colon means in IPA. Maproom (talk) 13:20, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
 * See under "Marks added to letters". Nardog (talk) 13:24, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

French "bœuf"
Right now in the [o] section we have [ø] with the French equivalent of "bœufs" and two lines below this we have [œ] with the French equivalent "bœuf". I am doubtful that the French pronounce these words with different vowel sounds. If they are indeed different vowels, shouldn't we have different words as examples? If they are the same sound, then shouldn't we have just one entry? Anybody know what's up with this? A loose necktie (talk) 07:27, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
 * These words are pronounced in French with different vowels. The singular ends in /f/. The plural has silent "fs" and ends in a vowel. This causes two different phones. See Wiktionary.&minus;Woodstone (talk) 07:36, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 February 2023
Schwa does not occur solely in unstressed syllables in English; many dialects (such as mine) use it in words such as "butter," where the first syllable is stressed. This is a really common phrase, but it's not true. (Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt66Je3o0Qg) 129.79.197.134 (talk) 14:53, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Done, but not because it's not true—Lindsey is simply presenting his own view, which is not shared by all in the field—but because it depends on variety and analysis. Nardog (talk) 14:56, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Add the labiodental fricative
Why isn’t it there this is supposed to be reliable 92.26.73.63 (talk) 15:20, 14 May 2023 (UTC)


 * It is there under F and V. Nardog (talk) 18:17, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
 * It's there, It's /f/ and /v/ Unifonisagoodalphabet (talk) 00:44, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Where is ɧ
it isn't in H or others so where 92.26.73.63 (talk) 16:01, 18 May 2023 (UTC)


 * As the lead says, Several rare IPA symbols are not included. Nardog (talk) 16:07, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

There is no information on the Voiced velar lateral approximant
Its blank 92.26.73.63 (talk) 15:57, 18 May 2023 (UTC)


 * As the lead says, Several rare IPA symbols are not included. Nardog (talk) 16:06, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

This isn't the place to ask for help. We have the Reference desk that can help with general questions. (See WP:HOMEWORK) – The Grid  ( talk )  16:08, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Untitled
This is the worst change Wikipedia ever made. Used to be one could click on the pronunciation script in an article and be taken to a page that succinctly explained how to pronounce the symbols. Now it's impossible to do unless you are willing to spend fifteen minutes or more reading the entire "IPA" article line by line to find the ONE character you don't know how to pronounce. Not even possible to search for the symbol because there is no way to cut/paste just one symbol from the pronunciation key in order to search for it.

This is going to cost me hours. Many many hours. No more monetary contributions from me. 69.168.126.113 (talk) 18:35, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Language-specific IPA keys still exist. Can you tell me what "change" you're talking about? (And all content on Wikipedia is written by volunteers like you. None of the money you contribute goes to them.) Nardog (talk) 10:10, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

Empty set
Why isn't the null phoneme/zero phone involved? JordiLopezboy (talk) 03:33, 4 January 2024 (UTC)