The Italian alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet used by the Italian language. The standard contemporary Italian alphabet has 21 letters, shown in the table below.
The Italian alphabet has five vowel letters, a, e, i, o, and u. Of those, only a has one sound value while each of the others has two. In addition, the letters e and i affect the pronunciation of a preceding c or g (see below).
In stressed syllables, the letter e represents the ...
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The Italian alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet used by the Italian language. The standard contemporary Italian alphabet has 21 letters, shown in the table below.
The Italian alphabet has five vowel letters, a, e, i, o, and u. Of those, only a has one sound value while each of the others has two. In addition, the letters e and i affect the pronunciation of a preceding c or g (see below).
In stressed syllables, the letter e represents the sounds /ɛ/ and /e/. The letter o represents both /ɔ/ and /o/ (see the Italian phonology article for further details on these sounds). There is typically no orthographic distinction between the two sounds represented by each letter, although accent marks are used in certain instances (see below). In unstressed syllables, only /e/ and /o/ occur.
The letters i and u, in addition to representing the respective vowels /i/ and /u/, also typically represent the semivowels /j/ and /w/, respectively, when unstressed and occurring before another vowel....
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