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Use these phonemes in a pronunciation for an Italian (it) request. Italian has 30 phonemes, as spoken in Italy. See Phoneme control for the format and how to send a lexicon. This lexicon entry makes Coda pronounce the invented brand name Velkora:

Rules for Italian

  • Mark one primary stress with ".
  • Write a double consonant as two phonemes split across a syllable boundary: gnocchi is " J O k . k i. The API rejects two identical consonants within one syllable with dup-consonant.
  • Open E and O are distinct phonemes from closed e and o.
  • J is the gn in gnocchi and L is the gli in figlio. Affricates ts, dz, tS, and dZ are single phonemes.

Vowels

Consonants