Jump to navigation Jump to search This page is about IPA for Standard Italian. This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Italian on Ipa names. 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.
For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. The charts below show how the International Phonetic Alphabet represents pronunciations of Standard Italian in Wikipedia articles. See Italian phonology and Italian orthography for a more thorough look at the sounds of Italian. The article on Italian orthography explains how they are used. A nasal always assimilates to the place of articulation of the following consonant. Italian contrasts seven monophthongs in stressed syllables.