Talk:Italian/Grammar/Pronunciation and alphabet

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Is this material not duplicated here? Νεοπτόλεμος 18:45, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

I think "V" is acutally "Vu" and not "Vi"...

"gli" sounds like "Yes"? I wonder if who wrote the text was able to speak italian, because it is really wrong.

Orthography and pronunciation
Thank you for that ("gli sounds like..."); I'm taking an Italian class, and came here with a pronunciation question. This seems entirely wrong, but pronunciation varies across the country, so perhaps somewhere? Più stasera, dopo la mia lezione :-) ...

Also, there is a claim that the Italian alphabet is identical to the English. Not in my text; J, K, X, Y and W are missing (Merlonghi, Merlonghi, Tursi and O'conner 8th Ed p 7). The same reference agrees that "v" is "vu" (not "vi"). Captain Puget (discuss • contribs) 18:03, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Re "every letter is always read in the same way": Sort of. The "c" in "ci" is not pronounced as the "c" in "ca". c or g, followed by i or e, is modified (in a way i don't know how to describe: palatal? "ll" is not the same as "l", etc etc.  There is an entire wikipedia article on the topic: Italian_phonology.  (And isn't that odd: W just thanked me for my first edit, which this is not!)