Help:IPA for 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 and Manual of Style/Pronunciation.

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 (for example, 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, (for example, caza and casa are pronounced the same), words spelled with $\langlez\rangle$ and with $\langlec\rangle$ (only when it occurs before $\langlei\rangle$ or $\langlee\rangle$) can be transcribed with.

See Spanish phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Spanish.