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Alphabets
Alphabets based on Latin script may be formed by single letters and digraphs, with or without diacritics.
This list should include all alphabets that use Latin script, in their respective alphabetic orders.
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- In Modern English: Æ, æ, Œ and œ are very rare and normally reserved for loan‐words, especially those from Greek or Latin. Otherwise, they are replaced by AE, ae, OE, and oe.
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- The start of sentences and words for God are rarely capitalized. Proper nouns are not capitalized.
- þ and ð are both used to represent the same sounds /θ/ or /ð/ (Modern English th).
- æ is used to represent the sound /æ/ (Modern English short a)
- The Tironian nota, ⁊ is a common abbreviation for and/ond.
- A stroked þ is a common abbreviation for þæt.
- A stroke over a letter indicates that an omitted m or n follows.
- A stroke over g is shorthand for the ge- prefix. Þon̅ is shorthand for þonne.
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- Two letters, wynn (ƿ) and thorn (þ) are borrowed Runic characters (ᚹ and ᚦ respectively.)
- The lowercase form of S is s at the end of words, and ſ elsewhere.
- d has a rounded shape.
- f sits below the baseline.
- g has a distinctive Insular form (ᵹ).
- ı is dotless.
- r extends below the baseline.
- t does not extend above the cross-stroke.
- y is usually dotted (ẏ).
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The letter Əə was formerly written as Ää before 1992.
The overdotted letter İ matches with lowercase (small) i, while regular highercase (capital) I goes with undotted small ı—like in Turkish.
The letters C, Q, V, W, Y and their lower case counterparts are used only in words borrowed from other languages.
Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian alphabet
Bosnian and Serbian may also be written in Cyrillic script.
High pitch:
Mid pitch:
Whispered: (the tone and voice diacritics may be omitted in writting)
The letters C, Q, W, X, Z and their lower case counterparts are used mainly in words borrowed from other languages.
| Notes about ʾAlefu Ḍḍ Ðð Ĝĝ Ḥḥ ʿAyenu Qq Ṣṣ Ṭṭ Þþ and Ẓẓ
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- In Domari: The letters ʾalefu, Ḍḍ, Ðð, Ĝĝ, Ḥḥ, ʿayenu, Qq, Ṣṣ, Ṭṭ, Þþ, and Ẓẓ are very rare, and normally reserved for loanwords and loannames, especially those from Arabic, Hebrew, or Syro-Aramaic.
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- The unaccented letters Cc and Jj are only found in modern international loanwords and loannames: for example—Jeep is pronounced as if were spelled Ĵîp, and Coke like if it were written Qôk.
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- Also recognized as part of the orthography, but not the alphabet: Š/š, W/w, Ž/ž (considered variants of S/s, V/v and Z/z respectively).
- Letters only used in borrowings: B/b, C/c, F/f, Q/q, X/x, Z/z, Å/å (the last of these only used to write Swedish names). In addition, the letters D/d and G/g only show up in specific environments in native words (the latter only as part of the digraph ng).
This is the normal French alphabet.
The letters J, K, W, Y and their lower case counterparts are used only in words borrowed from other languages.
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- The upper‐case form of „ß“ is often rendered simply as two letters: “SS” or “SZ”.
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- Each letter also has a numeric value. The letters 𐍁 and 𐍊 are used only as numerals.
Tones:
High: Acute ˊ (e.g. : Áá; optional)
High-low falling: Circumflex (e.g. : Ââ)
Low: Grave ˋ (e.g. : Àà)
Although not part of the Hawaiian alphabet, the following letters are used in Hawaiian words: Ā, Ē, Ī, Ō, Ū, and their respective lowercase versions ā, ē, ī, ō, and ū. The letter T, along with t, can sometimes be found in the place of K and k; this practice is most common on the island of Niʻihau.
wikisource:Hungarian spelling - Alphabet
Official Hungarian alphabet
Old Hungarian letters
The letters in the first column may be found in family names. Pronounce them the same as their modern counterparts in the second column.
- aa — á (e.g., Gaal)
- eé — é (e.g., Veér)
- eő — ö (e.g., Eötvös)
- ew — ö (e.g., Thewrewk)
- oó — ó (e.g., Soós)
- y — i (e.g., Kölcsey)
- ch — cs (e.g., Madách); or as /x/ (=kh) (e.g., Dóchannyi)
- cz — c (e.g., Czuczor)
- s — zs (e.g., Jósika)
- th — t (e.g., Csáth)
- ts — cs (e.g., Takáts)
- w — v (e.g., Wesselényi)
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- The letters marked in red are used in loanwords.
- Š and Ž only occur in the digraphs "Tš" and Dž.
- Long vowels are indicated by doubling: aa, ee, ii, oo, uu, yy, ää, öö.
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References
- Kimmo Granqvist (2011) “Aakkoset ”, in Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland, →ISBN, →ISSN, retrieved February 20, 2022, pages 1-2
The acute accent marks the pitch accent on stressed vowels (which have a higher tone than nonstressed ones).
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- K and W are rare in Latin. In Classical Latin, K was usually preceding an A, while Q precedes a U. W (from VV) was introduced during Middle Latin times.
- Both Y and Z were introduced solely for the writing of borrowed Greek words originally containing υ (upsilon) and ζ (zeta), respectively.
- The rounded U was introduced during the 2nd century CE; prior to that time and even thereafter, the letter V served as both vowel and consonant.
- The letter J (originally I longa, "long I") was similarly developed from I in the late Medieval and Renaissance periods.
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The letters ö (ȫ) and y (ȳ) represent phonemes that have fallen out of use in contemporary Livonian. They’ve been replaced with e (ē) and i (ī) respectively.
Although not part of the Maori alphabet, the following letters are used in Maori words: Ā, Ē, Ī, Ō, Ū, and their respective lowercase versions ā, ē, ī, ō, and ū.
Long vowels are indicated by doubling: aa, ee, ii, oo. The acute accent marks the high tone, and a rising tone is shown with the second vowel accented: aá, eé, ií, oó. A falling tone has the first vowel accented: áa, ée, íi, óo. If both are accented, it means a high flat tone: áá, éé, íí, óó. A low flat tone has no accents: aa, ee, ii, oo. The hook indicates a nasal vowel: ąą, ęę, įį, ǫǫ.
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Diacritical marks
Portuguese uses several diacritical marks to indicate special features in vowels. Letters with diacritics aren’t considered distinct letters.
- ´ (acute, occurs over a, e, i, o and u) and ^ (circumflex, occurs over a, e and o) indicate stress. Stress is contrastive. For example, the word fábrica is stressed on fá, meaning “factory”, while fabrica is stressed on bri, meaning “he produces, manufactures”.
- In vowels where a distinction between open and closed occurs, open is marked with ´ (acute), and closed with ^ (circumflex). (â /ɐ/, á /a/, ê /e/, é /ɛ/, ô /o/, ó /ɔ/).
- ` (grave, occurs over a) indicates fusion with the preposition a, usually with the article a forming à (to the). In older orthographies, it was used to mark secondary stress in compound words.
- ~ (tilde, occurs over a and o) indicates that the vowel nasalised. In most cases, however, nasality is indicated by an m or n in the syllable’s coda.
- ¨ (trema) is used in loanwords. Previously it was used over u to indicate /w/ in the digraphs qüe, qüi, güe and güi.
- Cedilla is not considered a diacritic, and only occurs under c (ç), where it is used to indicate soft c (/s/, as opposed to /k/) preceding the vowels a, o and u.
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- The letter Řř in Romani is pronounced as the prolonged /rː/, the retroflex flap /ɽ/, the alveolar tap /ɾ/, the voiced velar fricative /ɣ/, the voiceless velar fricative /x/, the voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/, the voiced uvular trill /ʀ/, or the retroflex approximant /ɻ/.
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- Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN
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- In varieties with mutations, the digraphs Ćh and Ʒ are pronounced as /ɕ/ʑ/ or /ʃ/ʒ/.
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- In varieties that distinguish two rhotic consonants, the digraph Rr is pronounced as the prolonged /rː/, the retroflex flap /ɽ/, the alveolar tap /ɾ/, the voiced velar fricative /ɣ/, the voiceless velar fricative /x/, the voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/, the voiced uvular trill /ʀ/, or the retroflex approximant /ɻ/.
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- ` (grave) indicates stress that does not fall on the last syllable.
- ¨ (two dots) indicates vowel centralization.
- ˇ (ćiriklo) indicates palatalization of the preceding consonant.
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- The letters Ç, Q, and Θ are used to indicate the morphophonological alternation of case suffixes in different phonological environments; these are realized as /dz/g/d/ after the letter N, but as /ts/k/t/ after every other letter.
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- The letter W is used to spell a dialectal pronunciation of V.
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References
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN
- “Introduction 3. How to read Rromani”, in R.E.D-RROM, 2021 October 13 (last accessed)
- Yūsuke Sumi (2018) ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ（ジプシー）語 (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC
The letters Q, W, Y and their lower case counterparts were formerly considered not part of the alphabet and are used only in words borrowed from other languages.
This is the normal Spanish alphabet. However, words are not alphabetized by it. Please read the notes and sections below.
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Aside from Ch and Ll, rr is another common digraph that is no longer considered a part of the alphabet by the Spanish Academy.
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Spanish uses an ´ (acute) diacritical mark over vowels to indicate a vocal stress on a word that would normally be stressed on another syllable. Stress is contrastive. For example, the word ánimo is normally accented on a, meaning "mood, spirit," while animo is stressed on ni meaning "I cheer," and animó is stressed on mó meaning "he cheered."
Additionally Spanish uses the acute mark to distinguish certain words which would otherwise look the same ("homographs"). The acute accent is used in various question words or relative pronoun pairs such as cómo and como (how), dónde and donde (where), and also in some other words such as tú (you) and tu (your), él (he/him) and el (the).
Diaeresis
Spanish uses a ¨ (diaeresis, two dots) diacritical mark over the vowel u to indicate that the u is pronounced in places where it would normally be silent. In particular, the u is silent in the letter combinations gue and gui, but in words such as vergüenza (shame) or pingüino (penguin), the u is in fact pronounced, forming a diphthong with the following vowel: and respectively.
quốc ngữ.
- J, W and Z are used only in foreign words; F rarely used by personal preference.
- Flat tone is not marked
- High rising tone is marked by an acute accent (ô+◌́= ố)
- Low tone is marked by a grave accent (ô+◌̀= ồ)
- Dipping-rising tone is marked by a hook above (ô+◌̉= ổ)
- High rising glottalized tone is marked by a tilde (ô+◌̃= ỗ)
- Low glottalized tone is marked by a dot below (ô+◌̣= ộ)
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The letter Y is seen as a form of the letter I and alphabetized accordingly. (Y is pronounced and occurs in closed syllables, for instance in the word "wyt", which means "white". When this word is inflected, for instance in the phrase "wite huzen", "white houses", the Y becomes an I, although the phonetical value remains . The reason for this is that "wit" would be pronounced , and in fact is pronounced that way and is the first person singular form of the verb "witte", meaning "to know".)
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Tones:
High: Acute ˊ (e.g. : Áá)
High-low falling: Circumflex ˆ (e.g. : Ââ)
Low-high rising: Umlaut/dieresis ¨ (e.g. : Ää)
Low: Grave ˋ (e.g. : Àà)
Tones:
High: Acute ˊ (e.g. : Áá)
High-low falling: Circumflex ˆ (e.g. : Ââ )
Mid: Macron ˉ (e.g. : Āā; optional)
Low-high rising: Caron ˇ (e. g. : Ǎǎ )
Low: Grave ˋ (e.g. : Àà)