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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.
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/.
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.
The Italian hard and soft C and G phenomenon leads to certain peculiarities in spelling and pronunciation: Words in -cio and -gio form plurals in -ci and -gi, e.g. bacio / baci ('kiss(es)') Words in -cia and -gia have been a point of contention. According to a commonly employed rule, [4] they:
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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").
Normally, pronunciation is given only for the subject of the article in its lead section. For non-English words and names, use the pronunciation key for the appropriate language. If a common English rendering of the non-English name exists (Venice, Nikita Khrushchev), its pronunciation, if necessary, should be indicated before the non-English one.
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 [ˈviːola] ) and viòla ("violet", pronounced ['vjɔːla] ).