Italian orthography - Wikipedia
Jan 05,  · Yes, italian alphabet does not include the letters J K W X and Y. Of course we do use all of these letters to spell foreign words. Jacopo is a jewish name and may also be spelled Iacopo; Jesolo may also be spelled Iesolo and according to Wikipedia, is probably the result of a number of transcription errors; Juventus (soccer team) is a latin word which means "youth" ("gioventù" in Italian). The Italian alphabet has 21 letters (when not counting letters with diacritical marks), out of which 5 are vowels and 16 consonants. As you probably know, the standard English alphabet has 26 letters. The 5 letters missing in Italian are J, K, W, X, and Y, which only appear in loanwords. Just for fun - in Italian there is no "J" letter. The sound of that letter in English is represented by "ge" or "gi" as in Giovanni ("jo von nee" in crude English phonetics). You also see this in "gelato" and it shows up in the English "gelatin" and its shorter form "gel". See also "gemini", "gesture", "gentle", "gee whiz", "german", and lots more.

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