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Italian is pretty close to Latin, so the Roman alphabet should suit Italian well. But there are a few odd points:

Musa solves all these problems.

Consonants

Here are the consonants of Italian, with the current orthography in black and IPA in green:

p p t t z ʦ c(i) ʧ c(h) k
b b d d z ʣ g(i) ʤ g(h) g
f f s s sc(i) ʃ
v v s z
m m n n gn ɲ n(k/g) ŋ
l l r r gl λ
i j u w

Geminate plosives and affricates are written with a held (unreleased) first consonant, for example as  grazie or  va bene. Geminate fricatives are just doubled.

Vowels

u u
é e ó o
è ɛ ò ɔ
a a

Stress, normally on the penultimate syllable, is indicated by a high vowel. Stressed vowels in open syllables are long, and written with the Long mark, except at the end of words. and never occur in unstressed syllables.

Samples

Now that you know the letters, why don't you try reading a sentence?

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