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Please fix Voiced dental non-sibilant affricate, you'll see it immediately. IPA editor (talk) 20:40, 7 January 2019 (UTC)


 * I assume you mean this fix which had already been done. "You'll see it immediately" is not really helpful. Huon (talk) 21:15, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Last edit in Help:IPA/Spanish
Hi! I just wanted to tell you that I think your last edit in Help:IPA/Spanish was unnecessary as both cuatro and cuadro are valid words in Spanish and, as far as I know, both are valid for the example given. The latter means painting or rectangle, amongst many other things. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kakahuete (talk • contribs) 09:02, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

In my opinion cuatro is a much more familiar example to nonnative speakers and learners because it's a number-- it's been featured too on Dora, etc. IPA editor (talk) 12:55, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Unattested sounds
Just so you know, we don't normally include independent articles about unattested sounds because it is difficult to establish WP:Notability of them. So unshaded yet empty cells in our IPA charts are not filled with symbols for a good reason, otherwise there would be too much clutter. Nardog (talk) 13:40, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
 * RIP Voiced velar lateral fricative then. IPA editor (talk) 17:15, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
 * What do you mean? The article says it occurs in Archi. Note that by "attested" we don't necessarily mean attested as a phoneme, but it may be an allophone—which I personally think is still pretty lenient, but that's where editors have drawn the line for years. Nardog (talk) 17:23, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

IPA templates
I know you're still learning the ropes, but since you edit phonetics articles, I think it's about time you remembered how to format IPA strings. IPA doesn't add brackets or link to an article, it just wraps the argument in  CSS class, which doesn't really do anything now—because most devices nowadays support IPA characters—except to make the underline for links not appear, but you can specify a font in your custom CSS and it's recommended because it adds semantic information to the code. IPAblink is a very useful template as it encloses a symbol in brackets and links to the corresponding article, as in, which produces. IPAslink adds slashes instead of brackets and IPA link just adds a link. Specify a second parameter to change the surface form but preserve the link, as in, which produces  (notice the target is different). When referring to a symbol and not the sound it represents, use angle brackets, in honor of MOS:WORDSASWORDS. Nardog (talk) 17:43, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

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Are and  supposed to look the same? They're different sounds. IPA editor (talk) 12:55, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Are you using Android? $⟨x⟩$ (lowercase Latin X) and $⟨χ⟩$ (Greek Chi) used to look the same in Roboto fonts. This has been fixed since Nougat.
 * Template names (and page names in general) on Wikipedia are case-sensitive. You need to type . Nardog (talk) 13:13, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

SPI
You don't need to do this. Let the thing speak for itself. Nardog (talk) 12:42, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Ok. IPA editor (talk) 12:43, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Uvular lateral fricative


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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing.  CASSIOPEIA(talk) 07:29, 23 July 2019 (UTC)