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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 Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
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 ...
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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/).
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.
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. Word-final n and groups nn-, n-(written with a hyphen) indicate a velar n ([ŋ], such as the n in the Italian word vengo) and are
“It’s very sad. Everything is different, even my body language is different,” she said. “People aren’t meeting the original me, I don’t know who I am.”
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").