This repository makes available a collection of IPA dictionaries in DSL format derived from the IPA Dictionary project. This makes it easy to look up the IPA pronunciation of words in a variety of languages using your favourite dictionary program.
ABBYY Lingvo DSL is a flexible dictionary format that can be read by dictionary applications such as Goldendict and converted to other formats using tools such as pyglossary. There are also a number of tools for creating DSL format dictionaries available in the dsl-tools project.
DSL files must be saved as UTF-16 to be usable by dictionary programs. The raw source files in this repository are saved in UTF-8 format, which is both significantly smaller in terms of file size, and also readable (and diffable) by git. However, there are fully encoded and compressed .dsl.dz dictionaries ready for use available in the Releases section.
You can also use the rezip_dsl.rb and unzip_dsl.rb scripts provided by the dsl-tools repo to encode/compress and decode/uncompress the dictionaries yourself either individually or as a group.
You can download pre-compiled dictionary files here for immediate use. These can be added directly to any dictionary program that supports DSL files.
The data directory contains the dictionaries listed according to ISO language code.
The basic filename pattern is [ISO]_ipa.dsl, with [ISO] being the source language ISO code. A list of all available languages is below.
| Filename | Language |
|---|---|
ar_ipa.dsl |
Arabic (Modern Standard) |
de_ipa.dsl |
German |
en_US_ipa.dsl |
English (General American) |
eo_ipa.dsl |
Esperanto |
es_ES_ipa.dsl |
Spanish (Spain) |
es_MX_ipa.dsl |
Spanish (Mexico) |
fa_ipa.dsl |
Persian |
fi_ipa.dsl |
Finnish |
fr_ipa.dsl |
French |
ja_ipa.dsl |
Japanese |
jam_ipa.dsl |
Jamaican Creole |
ma_ipa.dsl |
Malay (Malaysian/Indonesian) |
nb_ipa.dsl |
Norwegian (Bokmål) |
sv_ipa.dsl |
Swedish |
sw_ipa.dsl |
Swahili |
yue_ipa.dsl |
Cantonese |
zh_hans_ipa.dsl |
Mandarin (Simplified) |
zh_hant_ipa.dsl |
Mandarin (Traditional) |
| Language | # of entries |
|---|---|
ar |
857161 |
es_ES |
595899 |
es_MX |
595888 |
de |
278915 |
fr |
245150 |
ja |
221421 |
en_US |
125927 |
fi |
92837 |
yue |
57149 |
sw |
48308 |
zh_hant |
48241 |
zh_hans |
44781 |
ma |
28215 |
eo |
23517 |
sv |
21106 |
nb |
10139 |
fa |
8090 |
jam |
1701 |
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