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| Selected languages: | Italian_UPSID |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | Indo-European, Romance |
| The languages has | 39 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [p] [ʎ] [k] [w] [f] [v] [j] [l] [tʃ] [s] [r] [ɡ] [b] [d] [m] [n] [ɲ] [i] [u] [e] [o] [ä] [äu] [ɔi] [eu] [t] [ui] [ɛi] [oi] [äi] [ɛu] [ei] [z] [ʃ] [ts] [dz] [dʒ] [ɛ] [ɔ] |
| Comments: | According to Canepari (2005) vowel sequences in words like "piú, chiedo, qua, buono" are pronounced as glide+vowel sequence, that is not as diphthongs. Canepari accepts only /ai/, /au/ ( "fai, pausa") as diphthongs. Other sequences he refers to as /Vw/, /Vj/, /wV/, /jV/. The description of Italian based on Bertinetto and Loporcaro (2005)is different with respect to treatment of diphthongs. The description here is based on the latter. Canepari, Luciano (2005) A Handbook of Pronunciation, ch. 3: «Italian». |
| Sources: | Bertinetto, Pier Marco; Loporcaro, Michele (2005): The sound pattern of Standard Italian, as compared with the varieties spoken in Florence, Milan and Rome |