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The following is the chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of phonetic symbols devised and maintained by the International Phonetic Association. It is not a complete list of all possible speech sounds in the world's languages, only those about which stand-alone articles exist in this encyclopedia.
Letter sequences: tx (also common in Basque, however) and tg; Letter y is only used in the combination ny and loanwords; Letters k and w are rare and only used in loanwords (e.g. walkman) Word endings: -o, -a, -es, -ció, -tat, -ment; Word beginning: ll-(also common in Spanish and Welsh, however) Common words: això, amb, mateix, tots, que
The letters chosen for the IPA are meant to harmonize with the Latin alphabet. [note 7] For this reason, most letters are either Latin or Greek, or modifications thereof. Some letters are neither: for example, the letter denoting the glottal stop, ʔ , originally had the form of a question mark with the dot removed.
The 33 characters classified as ASCII Punctuation & Symbols are also sometimes referred to as ASCII special characters. Often only these characters (and not other Unicode punctuation) are what is meant when an organization says a password "requires punctuation marks".
See English alphabet#Letters for how the names of the letters of the alphabet are spelled. Similarly, the dispute over how to pronounce the X in Mac OS X may be better described as ten versus ex rather than as / ˈ t ɛ n / versus / ˈ ɛ k s /. In the case of Z, spelling out the letter as zee or zed is sufficient, if only one is considered ...
The term Latin alphabet may refer to either the alphabet used to write Latin (as described in this article) or other alphabets based on the Latin script, which is the basic set of letters common to the various alphabets descended from the classical Latin alphabet, such as the English alphabet.
Former letter of the English, German, Sorbian, and Latvian alphabets Ꟊ ꟊ S with short stroke overlay Used for tau gallicum in Gaulish [10] S with diagonal stroke Used for Cupeño and Luiseño [30] Ꞅ ꞅ Insular S Variant of s [9] [3] Ƨ: Reversed S (=Tone two) A letter used in the Zhuang language from 1957 to 1986 to indicate its ...
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century. During the ...