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Monolingual wordlists with pronunciation information in IPA
https://open-dict-data.github.io/ipa-lookup/
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ipa-dict - Monolingual wordlists with pronunciation information in IPA

This project aims to provide a series of dictionaries consisting of wordlists with accompanying phonemic pronunciation information in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription for as many words as possible in as many languages / dialects / variants as possible.

The dictionary data is available in a number of human- and machine-readable formats, in order to make it as useful as possible for various other applications.

Background

There is no existing central, standardized location for checking the correspondence between orthography and pronunciation in any given language.

Furthermore, IPA information even for large languages can be surprisingly difficult to find, and is generally not provided for each form of a word. In many languages, reference works only carry pronunciation notation for lemmas (headwords), and very little information is available on conjugations and forms of word classes other than the dictionary form. For highly inflected languages (e.g. French), each verb may have 40 or more conjugated forms, but pronunciation will only be listed for the dictionary form.

In fact, many languages do not have any significant amount of IPA information available at all, even in dictionaries, and this is even more likely to be the case for language variants and non-standard varieties.

This project aims to resolve these problems by compiling wordlists for each language along with accompanying IPA transcription.

A combination of manual and semi-automatic generation has been used to compile the pronunciations. Whenever possible, pronunciations have been checked manually by consulting multiple reference works, particularly for lemmas (which are usually more easily available). Inflected forms have been either added manually or with semi-automatic guidance when multiple pronunciations can be pre-determined with some certainty.

Formats

For convenience, the IPA data is provided here in several different formats:

All filenames refer to the ISO language code of the relevant language (e.g. sw.json is a JSON file containing pronunciations for Swahili.

Raw data

The raw data in this repository is provided as a series of text files with each word and its corresponding pronunciation in IPA on a separate line delimited by tab characters. The tab delimited files are plain text UTF-8 encoded files with the filename suffix .txt in the following format:

[ENTRY][TAB][IPA]

This file format is simple, lightweight, human- and machine-readable, and is also easily convertible to other common formats. Several of those formats (e.g. JSON, XML, CSV) are provided as downloads in the Releases section.

JSON

The JSON files are in the following format:

{
    "LANG":
        [{
            "ENTRY1":"IPA1",
            "ENTRY2":"IPA2",
            "ENTRY3":"IPA3",
            "ENTRY4":"IPA4"
        }]
}

XML

XML files have been generated for all the word lists in the following format:

    <IpaEntry EntryID="1">
      <Item>ENTRY</Item>
      <Ipa>/IPA/</Ipa>
    </IpaEntry>

CSV

There are comma-separated files available for use with spreadsheet programs and so on. These are in some ways similar to the raw data files, with the exception that they are delimited by commas rather than tabs. In most spreadsheet programs, you should be able to open these directly from the file menu.

Other formats

The ipa-dict-dsl project has converted all of the IPA data into DSL format dictionary files for use with dictionary software such as ABBY Lingvo, GoldenDict, or gdcl. Pre-compiled and compressed dictionary files for individual languages can be downloaded from the project releases page.

There is also a homonyms package containing all homonyms sorted by IPA reading for each language. Homonym lists are available for French, Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish, Cantonese, and Mandarin. The lists can be downloaded from the releases section.

If there is another format not listed here that would be useful to you, please feel free to open an issue or PR to add it.

Languages

IPA data is currently available for the following languages:

Language Code
ar Arabic (Modern Standard)
de German
en_UK English (Received Pronunciation)
en_US English (General American)
eo Esperanto
es_ES Spanish (Spain)
es_MX Spanish (Mexico)
fa Persian
fi Finnish
fr_FR French (France)
fr_QC French (Québec)
is Icelandic
ja Japanese
jam Jamaican Creole
km Khmer
ko Korean
ma Malay (Malaysian and Indonesian)
nb Norwegian Bokmål
nl Dutch
or Odia
ro Romanian
sv Swedish
sw Swahili
tts Isan
vi_C Vietnamese (Central)
vi_N Vietnamese (Northern)
vi_S Vietnamese (Southern)
yue Cantonese
zh Mandarin

Applications

This project provides an accessible source for IPA pronunciation information that other dictionary projects (e.g. Wiktionary) and electronic dictionaries can draw on rather than manually adding pronunciations for each entry.

An updated collection of dictionaries in ABBYY Lingvo DSL format is maintained by the open-dsl-dict project for use in dictionary programs such as Goldendict and gdcl:

ipa

You can download the binary dictionary files here.

The IPA Lookup project provides a web interface for searching the dictionaries in different languages:

IPA Lookup screenshots

Links to all the available languages can be found on the project homepage.

Apart from the above, there are several other ways that this data could be (and has been) applied:

Demo

You can search the data online on the IPA Lookup page for each language. The website makes use of the JSON formatted data.

Notes

Credits

License

All material in this repository released under the MIT license unless otherwise specified. Please note that third-party datasets retain their original licenses -- refer to the Credits section above for details.