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The Italian alphabet has five vowel letters, a e i o u . Of those, only a represents one sound value, while all others have two. In addition, e and i indicate a different pronunciation of a preceding c or g (see below). In stressed syllables, e represents both open /ɛ/ and close /e/.
In Italian phonemic distinction between long and short vowels is rare and limited to a few words and one morphological class, namely the pair composed by the first and third person of the historic past in verbs of the third conjugation—compare sentii (/senˈtiː/, "I felt/heard'), and sentì (/senˈti/, "he felt/heard").
In Italian, Í/í is a variant of I carrying an acute accent; it represents an /i/ carrying the tonic accent. It is used only if it is the last letter of the word except in dictionaries or when a different pronunciation may affect the meaning of a word: víola ("violates", pronounced) and viòla ("violet", pronounced).
The letters Á/á, Ý/ý, Ú/ú, Í/í, Ó/ó and É/é are produced by first pressing the ´ dead key and then the corresponding letter. The Nordic letters Å/å and Ä/ä can be produced by first pressing °, located below the Esc key, and ⇧ Shift+° (for ¨) which also works for the non-Nordic ÿ, Ü/ü, Ï/ï, and Ë/ë. These letters are ...
The letter j may appear in dialectal words, but its use is discouraged in contemporary standard Italian. [104] Letters used in foreign words can be replaced with phonetically equivalent native Italian letters and digraphs: gi , ge , or i for j ; c or ch for k (including in the standard prefix kilo-); o , u or v for w ; s , ss , z , zz or cs for ...
Just hold down the key of the letter you want, and a menu will appear with all the different options for accents denoted by number. (For capitalized letters, just press shift first). Press the ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Italian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Italian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
In Barese the use of the accents is obligatory: acute accent, used when stressed vowels have a closed sound: é, í, ó, ú; grave accent, used when stressed vowels have an open sound: à, è, ò; The monosyllables do not need to be accented, with some notable exceptions, such as à (preposition), é (conjunction), mè (adverb), and some others.