Editing Italian orthography (section)

{{Short description|Orthography of the Italian language}}
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'''Italian orthography''' (the [[Orthography|conventions used in writing]] Italian) uses the [[Latin alphabet]] to write the [[Italian language]]. This article focuses on the writing of Standard Italian, based historically on the [[Florentine dialect|Florentine]] variety of [[Tuscan dialect|Tuscan]].{{Sfn|Maiden|Robustelli|2014|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=RszKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA4 4]}}

Written Italian is very regular and almost completely [[phonemic orthography|phonemic]]—having an almost one-to-one correspondence between letters (or sequences of letters) and sounds (or sequences of sounds). The main exceptions are that [[stress (linguistics)|stress placement]] and [[vowel quality]] (for {{orthographic|e}} and {{orthographic|o}}) are not notated, {{orthographic|s}} and {{orthographic|z}} may be voiced or not, {{orthographic|i}} and {{orthographic|u}} may represent vowels or semivowels, and a [[silent letter|silent]] {{orthographic|h}} is used in a very few cases other than the digraphs {{orthographic|ch}} and {{orthographic|gh}} (used for the hard {{orthographic|c}} and {{orthographic|g}} sounds before {{orthographic|e}} and {{orthographic|i}}).