Turkish interlinear gloss with IPA

What this example shows

This is a full interlinear stack: a morpheme gloss line, an IPA line, the Turkish source, and an English translation, four rows for one sentence, “The child is playing in the garden”. Each Turkish word is cut into morphemes with pipe characters so the gloss above lines up piece by piece.

Reading the four rows

The top row carries grammatical labels, the second row gives the pronunciation in IPA, the third row is the Turkish text, and the bottom row is the free English translation. The top three rows describe the same Turkish words from different angles, so they belong together as a block. The English line is the one that says what the sentence means.

Why some connectors are hidden

Drawing links between every adjacent row would clutter the diagram, because the gloss, IPA, and Turkish lines all stand for the same tokens. So the connectors between those three rows are turned off while the links stay in the data, and curves appear only between Turkish and English. The interlinear block then reads as one tight unit with a single set of links to the translation.

Glossing conventions used here

The gloss line uses standard Leipzig labels for grammatical categories, and the pipe character marks morpheme boundaries inside each Turkish word. Tighten the vertical gap between the gloss rows so they sit close, and keep a wider gap before the translation.

For the labels on the gloss line:

• glossing abbreviations cheat sheet

Recreate it in the editor

Open the example, then hide or show connectors per pair of lines from the line popover, adjust the gap between rows, or upload a custom font for the source. Export the finished stack as PNG, SVG, or PDF for a grammar sketch or a slide.

See also

Other multi-line layouts:

• Nahuatl with Leipzig abbreviations shows the gloss line written in journal style.
• Tagalog verbal aspect paradigm stacks several verb forms in one diagram.
• Turkish case and verb morphology walks through one clause morpheme by morpheme.