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ei This digraph was taken over from Middle High German, where it represented /eɪ/. It usually represents a diphthong. In Modern German, ei is predominant in representing /aɪ/, as in Einstein, while the equivalent digraph ai appears in only a few words.
drz is used for /dʒ/ in English transcriptions of the Polish digraph dż . dsh is used for the foreign sound /dʒ/ in German. A common variant is the tetragraph dsch . It is used in Juǀʼhoan for the prevoiced aspirated affricate /d͡tsʰ/. dsj is used for foreign loan words with /dʒ/ Norwegian. Sometimes the digraph dj is used.
In Welsh, the digraph ll fused for a time into a ligature.. A digraph (from Ancient Greek δίς (dís) 'double' and γράφω (gráphō) 'to write') or digram is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.
This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.
For example, man has a lax a (/æ/), but the addition of i (as the digraph ai ) in main marks the a as tense (/eɪ/). These two strategies produce words that are spelled differently but pronounced identically , which helps differentiate words that would otherwise be homonyms , as in mane (silent e strategy), main (digraph strategy) and Maine ...
French underwent monophthongization and so the digraph ai , which formerly represented a diphthong, represents the sound /ɛ/ or /e/ in Modern French. Similarly, the digraph au and trigraph eau represent the monophthong /o/ due to the same process.
outside of loanwords, words do not begin with two consonants; this is reflected in the general syllable structure, where consonant clusters only occur across syllable boundaries, except in some loanwords; common words: sinä, on; common endings: -nen, -ka/-kä, -in, -t (plural suffix) common vowel combinations: ai, uo, ei, ie, oi, yö, äi
(Normally additional phonemic degrees of length are handled by the extra-short or half-long diacritic, i.e. e eˑ eː or ĕ e eː , but the first two words in each of the Estonian examples are analyzed as typically short and long, /e eː/ and /n nː/, requiring a different remedy for the additional words.)