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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.
Standard Italian phonemes, in bold, are followed by their most common phonetic values and their respective occurrence among dialects. Unless otherwise noted, unmentioned dialectal realizations are the same as for Standard Italian (e.g. Tuscan andando is [anˈdando], not [anˈnanno], and is therefore not listed below). Examples in the chart are ...
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").
The base alphabet consists of 21 letters: five vowels (A, E, I, O, U) and 16 consonants. The letters J, K, W, X and Y are not part of the proper alphabet, but appear in words of ancient Greek origin (e.g. Xilofono), loanwords (e.g. "weekend"), [2] foreign names (e.g. John), scientific terms (e.g. km) and in a handful of native words—such as the names Kalsa, Jesolo, Bettino Craxi, and Cybo ...
Italian has three degrees of comparison: comparative, relative superlative and absolute superlative. [clarification needed] The comparative and relative superlative are formed with più ('more', 'most'); for instance: sono più alto di te ("I am taller than you") sono il più alto fra gli uomini ("I am the tallest of men")
Pandoro is an Italian sweet bread from Verona that resembles the Italian Alps in shape and look. Pandoro is a tall, eight-pointed star-shaped cake dusted with icing sugar. How to Eat Panettone
Between vowels, the voiced post-alveolar affricate consonant is realized as voiced post-alveolar fricative (s and z in the English measure and azure): / dʒ / → [ ʒ ] . This phenomenon is very evident in daily speech (common also in Umbria and elsewhere in Central Italy): the phrase la gente , 'the people', in Standard Italian is pronounced ...
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