Here is a basic key to the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet.For the smaller set of symbols that is sufficient for English, see Help:IPA/English.Several rare IPA symbols are not included; these are found in the main IPA article or on the extensive IPA chart.For the Manual of Style guideline for pronunciation, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation.

The chart below explains how Wikipedia represents Modern Standard Arabic pronunciations with the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Wikipedia also has specific charts for Egyptian Arabic, Hejazi Arabic, Lebanese Arabic, and Tunisian Arabic.For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{}}, {{}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA …

This page used to be a joint pronunciation table for Azerbaijani, Gagauz, Turkish, and Turkmen. They have now been separated and can be found here:

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Standard Mandarin pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{}}, {{}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.See Standard Chinese phonology for more detail on the sounds of Mandarin Chinese.

The charts below show how the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Spanish language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{}}, {{}}, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.Generally, Castilian Spanish is used in IPA transcriptions except for some words …

Phonemes. A phoneme of a language or dialect is an abstraction of a speech sound or of a group of different sounds which are all perceived to have the same function by speakers of that particular language or dialect. For example, the English word through consists of three phonemes: the initial "th" sound, the "r" sound, and a vowel sound. The phonemes in this and many other …