Thread:Kee Nash W/@comment-915779-20170621083623

Regarding your recent edit The template &#123;&#123;ipa}} is only meant to be written in IPA. This is a system made in 1888 to allow any language to be written based on its sounds. What you wrote was a transliteration, which I could tell by the uppercase letter, and the use of the '. The differences between these systems are major:

• Transliteration (litteral transcription) is meant to have a one-to-one conversion between the characters from one script to another. It does not take pronunciation into consideration. It doesn't help you with pronunciation and is almost useless. • Transcription (translanguage) does take the pronunciation of the language into consideration, but most systems does it sloppy. It's also mostly done into English, which is which is wasteful if a user speaks a more sound-rich language. • IPA (phonetically) writes everything with phonemes. Latin lowercase letters sometimes with twists and extensions. If written correctly, it'll tell you the exact pronunciation.

If written as the first or second, you should use the &#123;&#123;phonetic}} template, but when written in IPA, you should use the &#123;&#123;ipa}} template. The goal is to replace all with IPA, as it's the best at telling pronunciation, and there will be systems in place that will convert these into different transmission systems (look at any page with Japanese). There will also be an IEP-system that tries to write it according to your language's orthography (but it's still under development).

You can continue to use &#123;&#123;phonetic}}. We will together replace them with IPA as time goes. 