XIPA. IPA Inputter & Interactive X-SAMPA to IPA Converter

XIPA is a tool for inputting IPA characters. This is done either by clicking the IPA icons at the top of the page, or by typing X-SAMPA in the bottom field. You can choose to hide the IPA icons and/or the X-SAMPA input field by clicking their toggle buttons below the last field. There is also a toggle button to show superscript IPA characters, which are hidden by default.

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 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˞.

October 2020:

• Updated information and added 'Known issues' and 'Log' tabs.
• Added _ˋ as an additional way to get the retroflex marker ˞.