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an interactive and playful IPA display with filters and sorters

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ipa-isotope

Making a filterable IPA chart using Isotope. Deployed at ipatope.github.io with source code at this repo.

IPAtope in action!

Glass theme with labials highlighted Pastel theme with phoneme cards dragged into "IPA"
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Features to try

  • Filtering the phones by
    • voicing (voiced/voiceless)
    • place of articulation (labial/dental/alveolar/palatal/velar/uvular/pharyngeal/glottal)
    • manner of articulation (stop or plosive/trill/tap or flap/fricative/affricate/sibilant/approximant)
    • properties (sonority > 5)
  • Sorting the phones by
    • symbol
    • sonority
  • Controls
    • reorder the phones into their original order
    • shuffle the phones into a random order
    • scramble them over the page
    • toggle attributes (name/symbol/sonority) on/off
    • choose between pastel and glass themes
    • drag the phones around with the little = sign on their bottom right!
    • click the play button to hear the phone [WIP]
    • extra: click around the particles on the webpage background to create more webs!

We welcome any feature or other suggestions!