Help:IPA/Spanish

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Spanish language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see IPA-es, IPAc-es and.

In general, Castilian Spanish is used in IPA transcriptions except for some words with and :
 * For terms that are more relevant to regions that have undergone yeísmo (where words such as haya and halla are pronounced the same), words spelled with $\langlell\rangle$ can be transcribed with.
 * For terms that are more relevant to regions with seseo (where words such as caza and casa are pronounced the same), words spelled with $\langlez\rangle$ or $\langlec\rangle$ (the latter only before $\langlei\rangle$ or $\langlee\rangle$) can be transcribed with.

In all other cases, if a local pronunciation is made, it should be labeled as "local" (for example,.

Vowels in acute are long vowels.

See Spanish phonology for a more thorough discussion of the sounds of Spanish, and Spanish dialects and varieties for regional variation.