Appendix:Italian pronunciation
See Italian phonology at Wikipedia 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/ | [ɱ] | /n/ | [n̠ʲ] | /ɲ/ | [ŋ] |
| Stop | /p/ • /b/ | /t/, [t̪] • /d/, [d̪] | [k̟] • [ɡ̟] | /k/ • /ɡ/ | ||
| Affricate | /ts/, [t̪͡s̪] • /dz/, [d̪͡z̪] | /tʃ/, [t͡ʃ] • /dʒ/, [d͡ʒ] | ||||
| Fricative | /f/ • /v/ | /s/ • /z/ | /ʃ/ | |||
| Approximant | /j/ | /w/ | ||||
| Lateral | /l/ | [l̠ʲ] | /ʎ/ | |||
| Trill | /r/ |
| Type | Front | Back |
|---|---|---|
| Close | /i/ | /u/ |
| Close-mid | /e/ | /o/ |
| Open-mid | /ɛ/ | /ɔ/ |
| Open | /a/, [ä] | |
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ˈ | Primary stress |
| ˌ | Secondary stress |
| ː | Long vowel or geminated consonant[1] |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Consonant gemination may also be transcribed by doubling the IPA symbol (e.g. cotto /ˈkɔtto/~/ˈkɔtːo/). Also, Italian features syntactic gemination: è buono /ɛ‿bˈbwɔːno/.