The charts below show how the International Phonetic Alphabet represents pronunciations of Standard Italian in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

Italian uses the symbol of elongation for both diphthongs and single vowels to represent the difference in relative length of two vowels within a single word. Not all words will contain vowels of differing length. The symbol of elongation will be used in the following instances.

Most dictionaries provide accurate pronunciations now – look especially for Hippocrene or Cassels, which use IPA. For more information about this start with Diction by John Moriarity and Diction for Singers by Joan Wall. No English equivalent. Is ogni closest to the sound of nio in onion, or the ñ in the Spanish word mañana.

Phonetic symbols chart: Italian (IPA) ɡ grazie /ˈɡrat.tsje/, prego /ˈprɛ.ɡo/ dz mezzo /ˈmɛd.dzo/, pranzo /ˈpran.dzo/ dʒ già /ˈdʒa/, giorno /ˈdʒor.no/ j più /ˈpju/, niente /ˈnjɛn.te/ ʎ gli /ʎi/, meglio /ˈmɛʎ.ʎo/ ɲ bisogno /bi.ˈzoɲ.ɲo/, ogni /ˈoɲ.ɲi/ ʃ uscire /uʃ.ˈʃi.re/, lasciare /laʃ.ˈʃa.re/

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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 Simple Wikipedia articles.

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Italian language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. See Italian phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Italian.

Wikipedia help page for IPA for Italian – includes English approximations; Italian pronunciation guide at Wiktionary

Collins Dictionary provides an IPA pronunciation guide to the symbols used in the Collins English-Italian and Italian-English Dictionaries.

The charts below show the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) representations of Central and Tuscan Italian pronunciations. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.