npm-ipa-symbols

The International Phonetic Alphabet is a standardized representation of speech sounds in as a system of characters and associated attributes. This repository provides a dictionary of IPA characters (symbols) and their attributes, as well as links to their Wikipedia pages.

It is published as ipa-symbols on npm and can be installed using this command:

npm i ipa-symbols

Use

Here is one way to import and use this package, for example to get all consonants that are articulated dentally:

import * as IPA from "ipa-symbols";

console.log(IPA.default.IPA_UTILS.getConsonantsByPlace("DENTAL"));

The utility file is exported as IPA_UTILS and the symbol file is exported as IPA_SYMBOLS.

Structure

Currently, these are the files in this package:

• ipa_symbols.js: contains the IPA symbol objects and enum values.
• utils.js: contains various helpful utility functions for filtering symbols, determining if a symbol is a vowel/consonant and getting Wikipedia-formatted links.
• index.js: exports the above two files.

Constants

Manners, places of articulation, height, backness, roundedness and voicedness are all defined using enums/constants. These can be found at the top of ipa_symbols.js.

Symbols

These are divided into consonants and vowels with the same basic structure.

Consonants have information about manner, place and whether they are voiced or not.

Example consonant:

{ manner: NA, place: BI, symbol: 'm̥', voiced: false, url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_bilabial_nasal', }

Vowels have information about height, backness and whether they are rounded or not.

Example vowel:

{ symbol: 'i', height: C, backness: F, roundedness: UR, url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_front_unrounded_vowel', }