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Script error: No such module "about". Template:IPA key

The charts below show how the International Phonetic Alphabet represents pronunciations of Standard Italian in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Template:Section link.

See Italian phonology and Italian orthography for a more thorough look at the sounds of standard Italian.

Consonants[1]
IPA Examples English approximation
Template:IPA link banca, cibo about
Template:IPA link dove, idra, dado today
Template:IPA link zaino, azalea, mezzo[2][3] dads
Template:IPA link gelo, giù, magia job
Template:IPA link fatto, cifra, fon fast
Template:IPA link gatto, agro, ghetto, glicosio[4] again
Template:IPA link cosa, acuto, finché, quei, kiwi, koala scar
Template:IPA link lato, tela, glicosio[4] ladder
Template:IPA link figli, glielo, maglia[3] billion
Template:IPA link mano, amare[5] mother
Template:IPA link anfibio, invece[5] comfort
Template:IPA link nano, punto, pensare, mangiare[5] nest
Template:IPA link unghia, anche, dunque[5] sing
Template:IPA link gnocco, ogni[3][5] canyon
Template:IPA link primo, ampio, apertura spin
Template:IPA link Roma, quattro, morte[6] trilled r
Template:IPA link sano, scusa, presentire, pasto[7] sorry
Template:IPA link scena, scià, pesci[3] shoe
Template:IPA link tranne, mito, altro star
Template:IPA link zio, sozzo, marzo[2][3] cats
Template:IPA link certo, ciao, farmacia check
Template:IPA link vado, povero vent
Template:IPA link sbirro, presentare, asma[7] amazon
Non-native consonants
Template:IPA link hobby, hertz[8] house
Template:IPA link Thatcher, Pérez[9] thing
Template:IPA link jota, Bach, khamsin[10] loch (Scottish English)
Template:IPA link Fuji, garage, casual vision
Vowels[11]
IPA Examples English approximation
Template:IPA link alto, sarà fast (Scottish English)
Template:IPA link vero, perché fade
Template:IPA link etto, cioè bed
Template:IPA link viso, sì, zia ski
Template:IPA link ombra, otto story
Template:IPA link otto, sarò off
Template:IPA link usi, ragù, tuo rule
Non-native vowels
Template:IPA link viveur, goethiano, Churchill[12] murder (RP)
Template:IPA link parure, brûlé, Führer[13] future (Scottish English)
 
Semivowels
IPA Examples English approximation
Template:IPA link ieri, saio, più, Jesi yes
Template:IPA link uova, guado, qui wine
 
Suprasegmentals
IPA Examples Explanation
Template:IPA link Cennini Script error: No such module "IPA". primary stress
Template:IPA link altamente Script error: No such module "IPA". secondary stress[14]
Template:IPA link continuo Script error: No such module "IPA". syllable break
Template:IPA link primo Script error: No such module "IPA". long vowel[15]

See also

Notes

Template:Reflist

Further reading

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External links

Template:IPA keys

  1. Except Template:IPAslink, all consonants after a vowel and before Script error: No such module "IPA"., Script error: No such module "IPA"., a vowel or a semivowel may be geminated. Gemination in IPA is represented by doubling the consonant (fatto Script error: No such module "IPA"., mezzo Script error: No such module "IPA".), and can usually be told from orthography. After stressed vowels and certain prepositions and conjunctions, word-initial consonants also become geminated (syntactic gemination): va via Script error: No such module "IPA"..
  2. a b Template:Angbr represents both Script error: No such module "IPA". and Script error: No such module "IPA".. The article on Italian orthography explains how they are used.
  3. a b c d e Script error: No such module "IPA". are always geminated after a vowel.
  4. a b Template:Angbr represents Script error: No such module "IPA". or Script error: No such module "IPA"., except in roots of Greek origin, when preceded by another consonant, and in a few other words, where it represents Script error: No such module "IPA"..
  5. a b c d e A nasal always assimilates to the place of articulation of the following consonant. It is bilabial Script error: No such module "IPA". before Script error: No such module "IPA"., labiodental Script error: No such module "IPA". before Script error: No such module "IPA"., dental, alveolar or postalveolar Script error: No such module "IPA". before Script error: No such module "IPA"., and velar Script error: No such module "IPA". before Script error: No such module "IPA".. Utterance-finally, it is always Script error: No such module "IPA"..
  6. Non-geminate Script error: No such module "IPA". is generally realised as a monovibrant trill or flap Template:IPAblink, particularly in unstressed syllables.
  7. a b Script error: No such module "IPA". and Script error: No such module "IPA". contrast only intervocalically. Word-initially, after consonants, when geminated, and before voiceless consonants, only Script error: No such module "IPA". is found. Before voiced consonants, only Script error: No such module "IPA". is found.
  8. Script error: No such module "IPA". is usually dropped.
  9. Script error: No such module "IPA". is usually pronounced as Template:IPAblink in English loanwords, and Template:IPAblink, Template:IPAblink (if spelled Template:Angbr) or Template:IPAblink (if spelled Template:Angbr or Template:Angbr) in Spanish ones.
  10. In Spanish loanwords, Script error: No such module "IPA". is usually pronounced as Template:IPAblink or Template:IPAblink or dropped. In German, Arabic and Russian ones, it is usually pronounced Template:IPAblink.
  11. Italian contrasts seven monophthongs in stressed syllables. Open-mid vowels Script error: No such module "IPA". can appear only if the syllable is stressed (coperto Script error: No such module "IPA"., quota Script error: No such module "IPA".), close-mid vowels Script error: No such module "IPA". are found elsewhere (Boccaccio Script error: No such module "IPA"., amore Script error: No such module "IPA".). Close and open vowels Script error: No such module "IPA". are unchanged in unstressed syllables, but word-final unstressed Script error: No such module "IPA". may become approximant Template:IPAblink before vowels, which is known as synalepha (pari età Script error: No such module "IPA".).
  12. Open-mid Template:IPAblink or close-mid Template:IPAblink if it is stressed but usually Template:IPAblink if it is unstressed. May be replaced by Template:IPAblink (stressed) or Template:IPAblink (stressed or unstressed).
  13. Script error: No such module "IPA". is often pronounced as Template:IPAblink or [[[:Template:IPA link]]Template:IPA link].
  14. Since Italian does not distinguish full and reduced vowels (like the English o in conclusion vs o in nomination), a defined secondary stress, even in long words, is extremely rare.
  15. Primarily stressed vowels are long in non-final open syllables: fato Script error: No such module "IPA"., fatto Script error: No such module "IPA"..