Italian phonology

Sounds and pronunciation of the Italian language This article is part of the series on theItalian language Italo-Dalmatian languages Tuscan (Florentine) Regional Italian Accademia della Crusca Enciclopedia Treccani History Veronese Riddle Placiti Cassinesi Sicilian School Dolce Stil Novo The Divine Comedy Pontifical Academy of Arcadia Italian Purism The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis The Betrothed Literature and other Culture Literature Music Philosophy Poetry Comics Italophilia Grammar Verb conjugation Alphabet Orthography Braille Phonology Syntactic gemination Tuscan gorgia vte The phonology of Italian describes the sound system—the phonology and phonetics—of standard Italian and its geographical variants. Consonants Consonant phonemes Labial Dental/alveolar Post-alveolar/palatal Velar Nasal m n ɲ Stop p b t d k ɡ Affricate t͡s d͡z t͡ʃ d͡ʒ Fricative f v s z ʃ (ʒ) Approximant j w Lateral l ʎ Trill r Notes: Between two vowels, or between a vowel and an approximant (/j, w/) or a liquid (/l, r/), consonants can be both singleton or geminate. Geminate consonants shorten the preceding vowel (or block phonetic lengthening) and the first element of the geminate is unreleased