See Italian phonology at popflock.com resource for a thorough look at the sounds of Italian. In addition, the Wikipedia help page for IPA for Italian has some useful English approximations.
Type | Bilabial | Labio- dental |
Dental/ Alveolar |
Palato- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | /m/ | [?] | /n/ | [n] | /?/ | [?] |
Stop | /p/ o /b/ | /t/, [t?] o /d/, [d?] | [k?] o [] | /k/ o /?/ | ||
Affricate | /ts/, [ts?] o /dz/, [dz?] | /t?/, [t] o /d?/, [d] | ||||
Fricative | /f/ o /v/ | /s/ o /z/ | /?/ | |||
Approximant | /j/ | /w/ | ||||
Lateral | /l/ | [l] | /?/ | |||
Trill | /r/ |
Symbol | Meaning |
---|---|
' | Primary stress |
? | Secondary stress |
: | Long vowel or geminated consonant[1] |