See Italian phonology at Wikipedia for a thorough look at the sounds of Italian. In addition, the Wikipedia help page for IPA for Italian has some useful English approximations.
| Type | Bilabial | Labio- dental |
Dental/ Alveolar |
Palato- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | /m/ | /n/ | /ɲ/ | |||
| Stop | /p/ • /b/ | /t/, • /d/, | • | /k/ • /ɡ/ | ||
| Affricate | /ts/, • /dz/, | /tʃ/, • /dʒ/, | ||||
| Fricative | /f/ • /v/ | /s/ • /z/ | /ʃ/ | |||
| Approximant | /j/ | /w/ | ||||
| Lateral | /l/ | /ʎ/ | ||||
| Trill | /r/ |
| Type | Front | Back |
|---|---|---|
| Close | /i/ | /u/ |
| Close-mid | /e/ | /o/ |
| Open-mid | /ɛ/ | /ɔ/ |
| Open | /a/, | |
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ˈ | Primary stress |
| ˌ | Secondary stress |
| ː | Long vowel or geminated consonant |