Appendix:Italian Pronunciation
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Appendix:Italian Pronunciation

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.

Consonants

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/

Vowels

Front Back
Close /i/ /u/
Close-mid /e/ /o/
Open-mid /?/ /?/
Open /a/, [ä]

Suprasegmentals

Symbol Meaning
' Primary stress
? Secondary stress
: Long vowel or
geminated consonant[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Consonant gemination may also be transcribed by doubling the IPA symbol (e.g. cotto /'k?tto/~/'k?t:o/). Also, Italian features syntactic gemination: è buono /b'bw?:no/.

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