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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.
ò and ö are read as o in Italian like in the word cosa; the length of ö is double ò. u is read as a French u with the exception in groups qu, òu and ou where the u is read as the u in the Italian word guida. ç always has a voiceless sound ([s]) like s in the Italian word sacco.
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.
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The equivalents of Italian contadino, piccioni, and cane ('farmer, pigeons, dog') are contadì, picció, and cà. [1] The presence of the ending -aro or -aru (from Latin -ārium) where Italian instead has -aio. [1] The fact that the general masculine singular ending in nouns and adjectives may be /u/, rather than the /o/ found in Italian.
In Italian the circumflex accent is an optional accent. While the accent itself has many uses, with the letter "i" it is only used while forming the plural of male nouns ending in -io in order to minimize both ambiguity and the stressing of the wrong syllable: principio /prinˈtʃipjo/ (principle) has the plural principî /prinˈtʃipi/, and principe /ˈprintʃipe/ (prince) has principi ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Central Italian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Central Italian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
This use of accents is generally mandatory only to indicate stress on a word-final vowel; elsewhere, accents are generally found only in dictionaries. Since final o is hardly ever close-mid, ó is very rarely encountered in written Italian (e.g. metró, "subway", from the original French pronunciation of métro with a final-stressed /o/).