Galician/Lesson 1/Alphabet

The Galician alphabet has 23 letters. To that, another 4 letters used in words imported from another languages are added, as well as 6 digraphs.

Let's see a list of the 23 letters:

Letter	Name of the letter	IPA Pronunciation	Sound compared to English	Example	Example tranlastion
a	a	[a]	a as in father	amor	love
b	be	[b]	as in bee	beber	to drink
c	ce	before e and i [θ], everywhere else [k]	as in thin, as in account	cea, casa	dinner, house
d	de	[d]	as in dance	dedo, deda	finger, toe
e	e	[e], [ɛ]	as in met	peto	pocket
f	efe	[f]
g	gue	[g]
h	hache ('agá' before new RAG rules in 2003)	soundless	-	home	man
i	i	[i]
l	ele	[l]
m	eme	[m]
n	ene	[n]
ñ	eñe	[ɲ]
o	o	[o], [ɔ]
p	pe	[p]
q	que	[k]
r	erre	[ɾ], [r]
s	ese	[s͇]
t	te	[t]
u	u	[u]
v	uve	[b]
x	xe	[ʃ], [ks͇]
z	zeta	[θ]

These are the four letters used in imported words from foreign languages:

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