Ipa Keyboard For Mac

Behold the first completely FREE IPA keyboard on the App Store designed for linguists, language learners, and hobbyists. It is designed to be lightweight and fluid, matching up to the user experience of the system emoji keyboard. Includes ALL symbols on the newest standard IPA chart (2015 ver.). If the standard IPA layout doesn't work for you, I would suggest making a custom keyboard layout with Ukelele (or if you prefer text-based editing, KeyLayoutMaker). Alternatively, if you don't need quite the level of speed that can offer, you can simply use the Character Palette (Edit Emoji and Symbols) to type the characters by double-clicking them. There are some IPA fonts available on the web for download, but many, if not all of the IPA symbols (eg. Dʒ and ŋ ) can be found in the Unicode encoded fonts on your Mac. Most may not be available directly from the keyboard. To locate those that are, got to Syatem Preferences International Input menu and show the Keyboard Viewer. A “dead key” is a key that does not generate a character, but rather changes the character generated by a following keystroke. For example, in the IPA keyboard, to get the “ə”,you would type the dead key “=” followed by the “e” (=e). Charts showing the how all the IPA characters are made this way can be found in this PDF.

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Page Content

Other Pages on Phonetics

Phonetic Fonts for Unicode

The following Unicode fonts include a comprehensive set of phonetic characters and are free for academic use.

Windows – Arial Unicode MS
Macintosh – Lucida Grande, several of the 'Pro' Japanese fonts
Microsoft Office (Win/Mac) – Cambria (serif), Calibri (sans-serif)
SIL Fonts – The SIL has created multiple fonts with IPA characters including:
- Andika – Designed for new readers. It could be suitable for some students with reading disorders.
- Doulos SIL – Includes Greek, Cyrillic
- Charis SIL – Font family and includes Greek, Cyrillic
- Gentium – From SIL. Very readable
Junicode – Includes characters for medieval languages
Aboriginal Serif and Aboriginal Sans Serif
Quivira – Modelled on Garamond and includes ancient language, basic Cyrillic/Armenian/Georgian and math/astronomical symbols

Text Text for Browsers

IPA Unicode Test Text

θɪs ɪz ə ənʌðər tɛst

Note on Encoding and Fonts

If these sites are not displaying correctly, see the Browser Setup page for set up information.

It’s important that your browser encoding be set to display Unicode (UTF-8). In some cases, you may need to set the default font to one that includes phonetic characters.

Input Palettes For Phonetics

These programs provide a pop-up window which allows you to insert different phonetic characters. See pages for installation and usage instructions.

Online
Macintosh –IPA Palette (Mac) – freeware from Brian Hall, Pitt Windows – IPA Character Map (Windows) – freeware from David Montero
Note: Requires .NET and may not work on new Windows systems

You can also use

Get Phonetics Keyboards

If you need to type phonetic symbols often, you may want to install phonetic keyboard utilities designed to work with the SIL Doulos and SIL Charis fonts.

SIL Unicode IPA Keyboards (Win/Mac/Linux)
UCL Unicode Phonetic Keyboard (Win)

Web Development

This section presents information specific to Spanish. For general information about developing non-English Web sites, see the Encoding Tutorial or the Web Layout sections.

Declare Unicode

No matter which method you use to create the document, the HTML page must be declared as a Unicode page with the following meta-tag.

Unicode Numeric Entity Codes

If you cannot use a Unicode phonetics input utilitiy or keyboard, then you can substitute numeric
entity codes instead. For example:

upside down R – ɹ(ɹ)
upside down capital R – ʁ(ʁ)
retroflex t (t-dot) – ṭ(ṭ)

See the Main Numeric Entity Code Chart and the Diacritic
Chart for details.

Specifying Phonetic Font Styles

Although it is generally not recommended to specify fonts for a language,
it may a good option to make display consistent across browsers.

Below are the CSS style classes listing some suggested
font specifications.

Ipa Keyboard For Mac Pro

.serifipa {font-family: 'Doulos SIL', 'Gentium', 'Junicode', 'Cardo', 'Aborigonal Serif','Arial Unicode MS'}

.ipa {font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Arial Unicode MS'}

for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows

Type every character and diacritic from the International Phonetic Alphabet easily.

Also available:
SuperLatin Keyboard Layout
SuperSymbol Keyboard Layout
SuperPET Keyboard Layout

The Layout

Kreative SuperIPA keyboard layout is based on CXS, a variant of
X-SAMPA, a mapping from ASCII to the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Most X-SAMPA mappings that use or ` for alternate characters can
be typed using Option on Mac OS X, Right Alt on Linux and Windows.
Diacritics can be typed using a Shift-Hyphen dead key on Mac OS X and
Windows (but not Linux), or direct key bindings on all supported systems.

◌̃

◌̰

ꜜ

‼

◌́

◌̋

◌̄

◌̀

◌̏

ꜛ

◌̌

◌᷄

(

◌͡◌

)

◌͜◌

◌̠

◌̯

◌̟

◌˞

◌̤

◌̽

◌̴

◌̂

◌᷈

◌᷅

◌̚

◌̥

◌̬

‿

◌̩

deletebackspace

◌̻

◌̼

↗

ᵿ

ᵻ

↘

{

◌̘

}

◌̙

‖

tab

[

◌̝

]

◌̞

◌̺

◌̪

◌̈

caps lock

◌̆

returnenter

◌̹

ⱱ

shift

◌̜

ⁿ

⟨

⟩

shift

nbsp

control

option

command

space

command

option

control

nbsp

ctrl

❖

alt

space

alt gr

❖

▤

ctrl

nbsp

ctrl

❖

alt

space

alt gr

❖

▤

ctrl

The Mapping

A complete mapping between IPA, X-SAMPA, CXS, and SuperIPA follows.
Differences between X-SAMPA and CXS are highlighted in green.

CONSONANTS (PULMONIC)
IPA	X-SAMPA	CXS	SuperIPA	Description
p	`p`	`p`	P	voiceless bilabial plosive
b	`b`	`b`	B	voiced bilabial plosive
t	`t`	`t`	T	voiceless alveolar plosive
d	`d`	`d`	D	voiced alveolar plosive
ʈ	t`	t`	Alt-T	voiceless retroflex plosive
ɖ	d`	d`	Alt-D	voiced retroflex plosive
c	`c`	`c`	C	voiceless palatal plosive
ɟ	`J`	`J`	Alt-Shift-J	voiced palatal plosive
k	`k`	`k`	K	voiceless velar plosive
g (or ɡ)	`g`	`g`	G (or Alt-G)	voiced velar plosive
q	`q`	`q`	Q	voiceless uvular plosive
ɢ	`G`	`G`	Alt-Shift-G	voiced uvular plosive
ʔ	`?`	`?`	Shift-/	glottal stop
m	`m`	`m`	M	bilabial nasal
ɱ	`F`	`F`	Shift-F	labiodental nasal
n	`n`	`n`	N	alveolar nasal
ɳ	n`	n`	Alt-N	retroflex nasal
ɲ	`J`	`J`	Shift-J	palatal nasal
ŋ	`N`	`N`	Shift-N	velar nasal
ɴ	`N`	`N`	Alt-Shift-N	uvular nasal
ʙ	`B`	`B`	Alt-Shift-B	bilabial trill
r	`r`	`r`	R	alveolar trill
ʀ	`R`	`R`	Alt-Shift-R	uvular trill
ⱱ	`V`	Alt-Shift-V	labiodental flap
ɾ	`4`	`4`	4	alveolar flap
ɽ	r`	r`	Alt-4	retroflex flap
ɸ	`p`	`p`	Alt-P	voiceless bilabial fricative
β	`B`	`B`	Shift-B	voiced bilabial fricative
f	`f`	`f`	F	voiceless labiodental fricative
v	`v`	`v`	V	voiced labiodental fricative
θ	`T`	`T`	Shift-T	voiceless dental fricative
ð	`D`	`D`	Shift-D	voiced dental fricative
s	`s`	`s`	S	voiceless alveolar fricative
z	`z`	`z`	Z	voiced alveolar fricative
ʃ	`S`	`S`	Shift-S	voiceless postalveolar fricative
ʒ	`Z`	`Z`	Shift-Z	voiced postalveolar fricative
ʂ	s`	s`	Alt-Shift-S	voiceless retroflex fricative
ʐ	z`	z`	Alt-Shift-Z	voiced retroflex fricative
ç	`C`	`C`	Shift-C	voiceless palatal fricative
ʝ	`j`	`j`	Alt-J	voiced palatal fricative
x	`x`	`x`	X	voiceless velar fricative
ɣ	`G`	`G`	Shift-G	voiced velar fricative
χ	`X`	`X`	Shift-X	voiceless uvular fricative
ʁ	`R`	`R`	Shift-R	voiced uvular fricative
ħ	`X`	`X`	Alt-Shift-X	voiceless pharyngeal fricative
ʕ	`?`	`?`	Alt-Shift-/	voiced pharyngeal fricative
h	`h`	`h`	H	voiceless glottal fricative
ɦ	`h`	`h`	Alt-H	voiced glottal fricative
ɬ	`K`	`K`	Shift-K	voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
ɮ	`K`	`K`	Alt-Shift-K	voiced alveolar lateral fricative
ʋ	`P` or `v`	`P` or `v`	Shift-P (or Alt-V)	labiodental approximant
ɹ	`r`	`r`	Alt-R	alveolar approximant
ɻ	r`	r`	Alt-Shift-4	retroflex approximant
j	`j`	`j`	J	palatal approximant
ɰ	`M`	`M`	Alt-Shift-M	velar approximant
l	`l`	`l`	L	alveolar lateral approximant
ɭ	l`	l`	Alt-K	retroflex lateral approximant
ʎ	`L`	`L`	Shift-L	palatal lateral approximant
ʟ	`L`	`L`	Alt-Shift-L	velar lateral approximant
CONSONANTS (NON-PULMONIC)
IPA	X-SAMPA	CXS	SuperIPA	Description
ʘ	`O`	`O`	Alt-Shift-O	bilabial click
ǀ	`\|`	`\|`	Alt-	dental click
ǃ	`!`	`!`	Alt-1	postalveolar click
‼	!`	Alt-Shift-1	retroflex click
ǂ	`=`	`=`	Alt-=	palatal click
ǁ	`\|\|`	`\|\|`	Alt-Shift-	alveolar lateral click
ɓ	`b_<`	`b_<`	Alt-B	voiced bilabial implosive
ɗ	`d_<`	`d_<`	Alt-F	voiced alveolar implosive
ʄ	`J_<`	`J_<`	Alt-Shift-F	voiced palatal implosive
ɠ	`g_<`	`g_<`	Alt-Y	voiced velar implosive
ʛ	`G_<`	`G_<`	Alt-Shift-Y	voiced uvular implosive
ʼ	`_>`	`_>`	Alt-'	ejective
VOWELS
IPA	X-SAMPA	CXS	SuperIPA	Description
i	`i`	`i`	I	close front unrounded vowel
y	`y`	`y`	Y	close front rounded vowel
ɨ	`1`	`1` or `i`	1 (or Alt-I)	close central unrounded vowel
ʉ	`}`	`u`	Alt-U	close central rounded vowel
ɯ	`M`	`M`	Shift-M	close back unrounded vowel
u	`u`	`u`	U	close back rounded vowel
ɪ	`I`	`I`	Shift-I	near-close near-front unrounded vowel
ʏ	`Y`	`Y`	Shift-Y	near-close near-front rounded vowel
ɪ̈ (or ᵻ)	`I`	`I`	Alt-Shift-I	near-close central unrounded vowel
ʊ̈ (or ᵿ)	`U`	`U`	Alt-Shift-U	near-close central rounded vowel
ʊ	`U`	`U`	Shift-U	near-close near-back rounded vowel
e	`e`	`e`	E	close-mid front unrounded vowel
ø	`2`	`2`	2	close-mid front rounded vowel
ɘ	`@`	`@`	Alt-Shift-2	close-mid central unrounded vowel
ɵ	`8`	`8`	8	close-mid central rounded vowel
ɤ	`7`	`7`	7	close-mid back unrounded vowel
o	`o`	`o`	O	close-mid back rounded vowel
ə	`@`	`@`	Shift-2	schwa
ɛ	`E`	`E`	Shift-E	open-mid front unrounded vowel
œ	`9`	`9`	9	open-mid front rounded vowel
ɜ	`3`	`3`	3	open-mid central unrounded vowel
ɞ	`3`	`3`	Alt-3	open-mid central rounded vowel
ʌ	`V`	`V`	Shift-V	open-mid back unrounded vowel
ɔ	`O`	`O`	Shift-O	open-mid back rounded vowel
æ	`{`	`&`	Shift-7	near-open front unrounded vowel
ɐ	`6`	`6`	6	near-open central vowel
a	`a`	`a`	A	open front unrounded vowel
ɶ	`&`	`&`	Alt-Shift-7	open front rounded vowel
ɑ	`A`	`A`	Shift-A	open back unrounded vowel
ɒ	`Q`	`Q`	Shift-Q	open back rounded vowel
OTHER SYMBOLS
IPA	X-SAMPA	CXS	SuperIPA	Description
ʍ	`W`	`W`	Shift-W	voiceless labial-velar fricative
w	`w`	`w`	W	labial-velar approximant
ɥ	`H`	`H`	Shift-H	labial-palatal approximant
ʜ	`H`	`H`	Alt-Shift-H	voiceless epiglottal fricative
ʢ	`<`	`<`	Alt-Shift-,	voiced epiglottal fricative
ʡ	`>`	`>`	Alt-Shift-.	epiglottal plosive
ɕ	`s`	`s`	Alt-S	voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative
ʑ	`z`	`z`	Alt-Z	voiced alveolo-palatal fricative
ɺ	`l`	`l`	Alt-L	alveolar lateral flap
ɧ	`x`	`x`	Alt-X	voiceless palatal-velar fricative
◌͡◌	`_`	`_` or `)`	Alt-Shift-9	upper tie bar
◌͜◌	`_`	`_` or `)`	Alt-Shift-0	lower tie bar
SUPRASEGMENTALS
IPA	X-SAMPA	CXS	SuperIPA	Description
ˈ	`'`	`'` or `'`	'	primary stress
ˌ	`%`	`'` or `,`	Shift-'	secondary stress
ː	`:`	`:`	Shift-;	long
ˑ	`:`	`:`	Alt-Shift-;	half long
◌̆	`_X`	`_X`	Alt-;	extra-short
\|	`\|`	`\|`		minor (foot) group
‖	`\|\|`	`\|\|`	Shift-	major (intonation) group
.	`.`	`.`	.	syllable break
‿	`-`	`-`	Alt--	linking mark
TONES AND WORD ACCENTS
IPA	X-SAMPA	CXS	SuperIPA	Description
◌̋	`_T`	`_T`	Alt-Shift-3	extra high tone
◌́	`_H`	`_H`	Shift-3	high tone
◌̄	`_M`	`_M`	Shift-4	mid tone
◌̀	`_L`	`_L`	Shift-5	low tone
◌̏	`_B`	`_B`	Alt-Shift-5	extra low tone
◌̌	`_R` or `_/`	`_R` or `_/`	Alt-Shift-6	rising tone
◌̂	`_F` or `_`	`_F` or `_`	Alt-6	falling tone
◌᷄	`_H_T`	`_H_T`	Alt-Shift-8	high rising tone
◌᷅	`_B_L`	`_B_L`	Alt-8	low rising tone
◌᷈	`_R_F`	`_R_F`	Alt-7	rising falling tone
ꜜ	`!`	`!`	Shift-1	downstep
ꜛ	`^`	`^`	Shift-6	upstep
↗	`<R>`	`<R>`	Alt-Shift-T	global rise
↘	`<F>`	`<F>`	Alt-Shift-P	global fall
DIACRITICS
IPA	X-SAMPA	CXS	SuperIPA	Description
◌̥	`_0`	`_0`	0	voiceless
◌̬	`_v`	`_v`	Alt-0	voiced
ʰ	`_h`	`_h`	Alt-A	aspirated
◌̹	`_O`	`_O`	Alt-Shift-C	more rounded
◌̜	`_c`	`_c`	Alt-C	less rounded
◌̟	`_+`	`_+`	Alt-Shift-=	advanced
◌̠	`_-`	`_-`	Alt-Shift--	retracted
◌̈	`_'`	`_'`	Alt-Shift-'	centralized
◌̽	`_x`	`_x`	Alt-2	mid-centralized
◌̩	`=` or `_=`	`=` or `_=`	=	syllabic
◌̯	`_^`	`_^`	Shift-=	non-syllabic
◌˞	`	`	`	rhoticity
ɚ	@`	@`	Alt-E	rhoticized ə
ɝ	3`	3`	Alt-Shift-E	rhoticized ɜ
◌̤	`_t`	`_t`	Alt-`	breathy voice
◌̰	`_k`	`_k`	Alt-Shift-`	creaky voice
◌̼	`_N`	`_N`	Alt-Shift-W	linguolabial
ʷ	`_w`	`_w`	Alt-W	labialized
ʲ	`'` or `_j`	`;` or `_j`	;	palatalized
ˠ	`_G`	`_G`	Alt-Q	velarized
ˤ	`_?`	`_?`	Alt-/	pharyngealized
◌̴	`_e`	`_e`	Alt-5	velarized or pharyngealized
ɫ	`5`	`5`	5	velarized alveolar lateral approximant
◌̝	`_r`	`_r`	Alt-[	raised
◌̞	`_o`	`_o`	Alt-]	lowered
◌̘	`_A`	`_A`	Alt-Shift-[	advanced tongue root
◌̙	`_q`	`_q`	Alt-Shift-]	retracted tongue root
◌̪	`_d`	`_d`	Alt-Shift-D	dental
◌̺	`_a`	`_a`	Alt-Shift-A	apical
◌̻	`_m`	`_m`	Alt-Shift-Q	laminal
◌̃	`~` or `_~`	`~` or `_~`	Shift-`	nasalization
ⁿ	`_n`	`_n`	Alt-M	nasal release
ˡ	`_l`	`_l`	Alt-O	lateral release
◌̚	`_}`	`_}`	Alt-9	no audible release

Installation on Mac OS X

Copy SuperIPA.keylayout and SuperIPA.icns to either
~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/ or /Library/Keyboard Layouts/.

Open System Preferences, search for 'keyboard layout,'
and add the SuperIPA keyboard layout or input method.

Ipa Keyboard For Mac Computers

Select SuperIPA from the keyboard menu and start typing.

Installation on Windows

Run setup.exe and follow the prompts.

Select SuperIPA from the language bar and start typing.

Installation on Linux

Open a terminal in the Linux directory and run sudo python install.py.

Restart the window server by logging out and in again.

Open the settings application, search for 'keyboard layout,'
and add the SuperIPA keyboard layout or input method.

Select SuperIPA from the keyboard menu and start typing.

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Page Content

Other Pages on Phonetics

Phonetic Fonts for Unicode

Text Text for Browsers

IPA Unicode Test Text

Note on Encoding and Fonts

Input Palettes For Phonetics

Get Phonetics Keyboards

Web Development

Declare Unicode

Unicode Numeric Entity Codes

Specifying Phonetic Font Styles

Ipa Keyboard For Mac Pro

Links

Third Party Fonts

IPA Unicode Char Maps/Palettes and Keyboards

Windows

Macintosh OS X

Online Keyboards

Phonetics in HTML

for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows

The Layout

The Mapping

Installation on Mac OS X

Ipa Keyboard For Mac Computers

Installation on Windows

Installation on Linux

Enjoy!

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