IPA Keyboard

X-Sampa Converter

Information

This tool allows you to type IPA chracters! Click on either the IPA icons at the top of the page, or by typing in the X-SAMPA field. Enter base characters before diacritics. If you hover over the IPA icons, hovertext will tell you the name of the phoneme (not on mobile).

You can also select previously selected characters from a list that appears to the right of the 'Clear' button.

Mobile users should be advised they can scroll the IPA table left and right. And that Apple and Android devices have access to an IPA keyboard in the keyboard settings of their device,

This tool has been directly inspired by the similar tools Westonruter's IPA Chart and Aevas's Xipa. You can also visit this site to hear audio clips of IPA and their phonemes.

X-SAMPA notation

To enable X-SAMPA users to convert to the IPA without limitations, or just to make some things easier, XIPA uses some additional notations that are not standard in X-SAMPA:

• The combination b\ gives the labial flap ⱱ.
• Round brackets ) ( are used for tie above and tie below, respectively. They are placed between the adjoining letters; e.g. t)s gives t͡s.
• A backslash \ is used to move diacritics to a non-default position; e.g. m_0 gives m̥ while m_0\ gives m̊.
• A backslash \ is also used to turn tone diacritics into Chao letters; e.g. a_H gives á while a_H\ gives a˦.
• A plus sign + is used to trigger superscript characters; e.g. b+h\ gives bʱ.
• The combination _f marks a whistled sound, e.g. s_f gives s͎.
• The combination _J creates alveolo-palatal characters, e.g. t_J gives ȶ. (With the exception of ɕ and ʑ, alveolo-palatal characters are non-IPA.)
• The combination g\ gives the opentail letter g. The difference is however not visible in XIPA's default font.
• The combination !\!\ gives the retroflex click "ad hoc digraph" ‼︎.
• The following combinations exist in XIPA in addition to their standard notation in X-SAMPA:
  • p_! gives the labial click ʘ (standard O\).
  • t_! gives the dental click ǀ (standard |\).
  • t`_! gives the (post)alveolar click ǃ (standard !\).
  • c_! gives the palatoalveolar click ǂ (standard =\).
  • l_! gives the alveolar lateral click ǁ (standard |\|\).
  • i\ gives the close central unrounded vowel ɨ (standard 1).
  • u\ gives the close central rounded vowel ʉ (standard }).
  • _ˋ gives the retroflex marker ˞ (standard ˋ).
• Typing the X-Sampa retroflex marker ˋ after a letter that it doesn't merge with will bug the previous letter. To avoid this use _ˋ instead; e.g. Aˋ gives A˞, A_ˋ gives desired ɑ˞.