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This package allows you to easily convert different ASCII representations of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to and from the IPA. It also offers some minor utilities to make phonetic transcriptions easier to use overall.

Note: This is an extended port of the ipa-translate Rust crate by tirimid’s conversion features into native Typst. All conversions are implemented according to this Wikipedia article.

Usage

Conversion

The package supports several different ASCII representations for the IPA with one function each:

Notation Function name
Branner #branner(...)
Praat #praat(...)
SIL #sil(...)
X-SAMPA #xsampa(...)

They all return the converted value as content and accept the same parameters:

Parameter Type Positional / Named Default Description
value string positional Main input to the function. Usually the transcription in the corresponsing ASCII-based notation.
reverse boolean named false Reverses the conversion. Pass Unicode IPA into value to get the corresponsing ASCII-based notation back.
override-font boolean named false Overrides the active font and forces rendering in Linux Libertine. Use this if your font has lackluster support for Unicode IPA.

Examples

All examples use the Russian word ⟨привет⟩ [prʲɪvʲet] for the conversion.

#import "@preview/ascii-ipa:1.0.0": *

// Branner
#branner("prj^Ivj^et") // -> prʲɪvʲet
#branner("prʲɪvʲet", reverse: true) // -> prj^Ivj^et

// Praat
#praat("pr\\^j\\icv\\^jet") // -> prʲɪvʲet
#praat("prʲɪvʲet", reverse: true) // -> pr\\^j\\icv\\^jet

// SIL
#sil("prj^i=vj^et") // -> prʲɪvʲet
#sil("prʲɪvʲet", reverse: true) // -> prj^i=vj^et

// X-SAMPA
#xsampa("pr_jIv_jet") // -> prʲɪvʲet
#xsampa("prʲɪvʲet", reverse: true) // -> pr_jIv_jet

// Font override
#xsampa("prj^Ivj^et", override-font: true) // -> prʲɪvʲet, but in Linux Libertine

Deviations from Wikipedia

Not everything is implemented fully compliant with the information in the article.

  • Branner
    • ts)) is instead represented as t))s
  • SIL
    • The only supported superscript characters are: ʰ, ʷ, ʲ, ˠ, ˤ, ⁿ, ˡ

Brackets & Braces

You can easily mark your notation text as phonetic, phonemic, orthographic, or prosodic.

#import "@preview/ascii-ipa:1.0.0": *

#phonetic("prʲɪˈvʲet") // -> [prʲɪˈvʲet]
#phnt("prʲɪˈvʲet") // -> [prʲɪˈvʲet]

#phonemic("prɪvet") // -> /prɪvet/
#phnm("prɪvet") // -> /prɪvet/

#orthographic("привет") // -> ⟨привет⟩
#orth("привет") // -> ⟨привет⟩

#prosodic("prʲɪˈvʲet") // -> {prʲɪˈvʲet}
#prsd("prʲɪˈvʲet") // -> {prʲɪˈvʲet}