However, to get the more cool/obscure characters and diacritics, or to stack diacritics (placing, for instance, a tone marking above a nasal marking), you need special fonts, layouts and setup. Some of the characters are easy enough to use without any special work (ŋ, ə), as most fonts already include them. See all postsĪs a linguist, you find yourself using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) incredibly frequently.
At this point, it works for any version of MacOS including 11.1 ’Big Sur”. This was originally posted on my blog, Notes from a Linguistic Mystic in 2007, but is kept updated here for the internet’s use.
