Help:IPA/Italian
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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 {{IPA-it}}, {{IPAc-it}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation#Entering IPA characters § Notes.
See Italian phonology and Italian orthography for a more thorough look at the sounds of Italian.
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Notes
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External links
- Dizionario italiano multimediale e multilingue d'ortografia e di pronunzia Script error: No such module "In lang". [not based on IPA]
- Dizionario di pronuncia italiana online by Luciano Canepari Script error: No such module "In lang". [phonemic, based on IPA]
- ↑ Except /z/, all consonants after a vowel and before /r/, /l/, a vowel or a semivowel may be geminated. Gemination in IPA is represented by doubling the consonant (fatto [ˈfatto], mezzo [ˈmɛddzo]), 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 [ˌva vˈviːa].
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 ⟨z⟩ represents both /ts/ and /dz/. The article on Italian orthography explains how they are used.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 /ts, dz, ʃ, ɲ, ʎ/ are always geminated after a vowel.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 ⟨gli⟩ represents /ʎ/ or /ʎi/, except in roots of Greek origin, when preceded by another consonant, and in a few other words, where it represents /ɡli/.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 A nasal always assimilates to the place of articulation of the following consonant. It is bilabial [m] before /p, b, m/, labiodental [ɱ] before /f, v/, dental, alveolar or postalveolar [n] before /t, d, ts, dz, tʃ, dʒ, ʃ, l, r/, and velar [ŋ] before /k, ɡ/. Utterance-finally, it is always [n].
- ↑ Non-geminate /r/ is generally realised as a monovibrant trill or tap [ɾ], particularly in unstressed syllables.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 /s/ and /z/ contrast only intervocalically. Word-initially, after consonants, when geminated, and before voiceless consonants, only [s] is found. Before voiced consonants, only [z] is found.
- ↑ /h/ is usually dropped.
- ↑ /θ/ is usually pronounced as [t] in English loanwords, and [dz], [ts] (if spelled ⟨z⟩) or [s] (if spelled ⟨c⟩ or ⟨z⟩) in Spanish ones.
- ↑ In Spanish loanwords, /x/ is usually pronounced as [h] or [k] or dropped. In German, Arabic and Russian ones, it is usually pronounced [k].
- ↑ Italian contrasts seven monophthongs in stressed syllables. Open-mid vowels /ɛ, ɔ/ can appear only if the syllable is stressed (coperto [koˈpɛrto], quota [ˈkwɔːta]), close-mid vowels /e, o/ are found elsewhere (Boccaccio [bokˈkattʃo], amore [aˈmoːre]). Close and open vowels /i, u, a/ are unchanged in unstressed syllables, but word-final unstressed /i/ may become approximant [j] before vowels, which is known as synalepha (pari età [ˌparj eˈta]).
- ↑ Open-mid [œ] or close-mid [ø] if it is stressed but usually [ø] if it is unstressed. May be replaced by [ɛ] (stressed) or [e] (stressed or unstressed).
- ↑ /y/ is often pronounced as [u] or [ju].
- ↑ Since Italian has no distinction between heavier or lighter vowels (like the English o in conclusion vs o in nomination), a defined secondary stress, even in long words, is extremely rare.
- ↑ Primarily stressed vowels are long in non-final open syllables: fato [ˈfaːto], fatto [ˈfatto].
