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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Plosive || p || b || || || t̪ || d̪ || || || || || || || k || g || | |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Plosive || p || b || || || t̪ || d̪ || || || || || || || k || g || | ||
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Fricative || || || f || v || || || s || || ʃ || (ʒ) || || || || || | |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Fricative || || || f || v || || || s || z || ʃ || (ʒ) || || || || || | ||
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Affricate || || || || || || || | |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Affricate || || || || || || || ts || dz || ʧ || ʤ || || || | ||
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Revision as of 09:33, 6 December 2008
Italian is a Romance language, spoken primarily in Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City, and Malta. There is also a large amount of speakers of Italian in France, Croatia, Ethiopia and Slovenia.
History
Phonology
Consonants
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiod. | Inter-dental | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | (ʒ) | ||||||||||
| Affricate | ts | dz | ʧ | ʤ | ||||||||||||
| Approximants & glides | j | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l/ɫ | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
Vowels
| Vowels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||||
| Unround | Unrounded | Rounded | ||||||||
| High | i | u | ||||||||
| Mid | e | o | ||||||||
| Low | a | |||||||||
