This is a documentation subpage for Template:IPA link. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is used on approximately 5,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This template uses Lua: Module:IPA symbol (sandbox)

The template {{IPA link}} takes an IPA symbol and turns it into a link to the respective article which discusses the sound the symbol represents.

Versions with defined brackets are also available:

• For phonetic representations, {{IPAblink}} encloses the link in square brackets: [a]
• For phonemic representations, {{IPAslink}} encloses the link in slashes: /a/
• For orthographic representations, {{IPAalink}} encloses the link in angle brackets: ⟨a⟩ (for graphic representations without link to any sound, see template:grapheme)

Another version is {{IPAplink}}, which encloses the link in neither brackets nor <span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa">...</span>, which is useful if the link is already inside {{IPA}}, avoiding superfluous nesting of the same class.

First parameter (required): any IPA symbol.

• {{IPA link|m}} → m
• {{IPA link|ɡb}} → ɡb

Second parameter: changes the label of the wikilink.

• {{IPA link|m|Any text}} → Any text

Note: For the exact opposite, in other words to change the label of a wikilink and contain an IPA template, use {{IPA}}. However, it may display incorrectly, see Template:IPA#Issue with linking.

Audio link

|audio=yes adds a link to the corresponding audio file:

• {{IPA link|ɽ|audio=yes}} → ɽ ^ⓘ

If the value in |audio= is not "yes", "y", "true", etc., it is treated as the name of an audio file:

• {{IPA link|ɽ|audio=Retroflex flaps.ogg}} → ɽ ^ⓘ

If the audio file is not specified at Module:IPA symbol/data, the link will not appear:

• {{IPA link|s̬|audio=yes}} → s̬

Errors

If the IPA symbol is not defined at Module:IPA symbol/data, then an error message is returned and the page will be categorized into Category:International Phonetic Alphabet pages needing attention.

• {{IPA link|xyz}} → Error using {{IPA symbol}}: "xyz" not found in list

The error message can be customized in |errortext=. This cancels the addition of the error category. If set to blank, the message will not appear at all.

• {{IPA link|xyz|errortext=Custom error message}} → Custom error message
• {{IPA link|xyz|errortext=blank}} →