Latin:Sounds and Writing
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In classical times, each letter of the alphabet corresponded very closely with a phoneme and all the text were written with capital letters and no spacing between them.
| Letter | Pronunciation | Comments |
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| A | /a/ /a:/ | |
| B | /b/ | |
| C | /k/ | |
| D | /d/ | |
| E | /e/, /e:/ | |
| F | /f/ | |
| G | /g/ | |
| H | /h/ | |
| I | /i/, /i:/, /j/ | /j/ appears at the beginning of words before a vowel, or in the middle of the words between two vowels |
| K | /k/ | |
| L | /l/ | |
| M | /m/ | |
| N | /n/, /ŋ/ | /n/ assimilated to [m] before labial consonants , and to [ŋ] before velar consonants |
| O | /o/ /o:/ | |
| P | /p/ | |
| Q | /kʷ/ | /kʷ/ only occurs in QV |
| R | /r/ | |
| S | /s/ | |
| T | /t/ | |
| V | /u/, /u:/, /w/ | |
| X | /ks/ | |
| Y | /y/, /y:/ | |
| Z | /z/ | |
| CH | /kʰ/ | |
| PH | /pʰ/ | |
| TH | /tʰ/ |
Consonants
Labial Dental Palatal Velar Glottal plain labial Plosive voiced /b/ /d/ /ɡ/ voiceless /p/ /t/ /k/ /kʷ/ aspirated /pʰ/ /tʰ/ /kʰ/ Fricative voiced /z/ voiceless /f/ /s/ /h/ Nasal /m/ /n/ [ŋ] Rhotic /r/ Approximant /l/ /j/ /w/
Vowels
Front Central Back long short long short long short High /iː/ /yː/ /i/ /y/ /uː/ /u/ Mid /eː/ /e/ /oː/ /o/ Low /aː/ /a/
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| Introduction · Cases · Pronouns · Verbs · Sounds and Writing |
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| Italo-Dalmatian | Corsican, Dalmatian, Istriot, Italian, Neapolitan, Sicilian
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| Eastern Romance | Moldovan, Romanian
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| Southern Romance | Sardian,
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| Western Romance | Pyrenean-Mozarabic | Aragonese, Mozarabic | |||
| Gallo-Iberian | Langues d'oïl | French
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| Gallo-Italian | |||||
| Ibero-Romance | West Iberian | Galician, Leonese, Spanish, Portuguese
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| East Iberian | Catalan
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| Rhaeto-Romance | Friulian, Ladin, Romansh
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| Oscan | Sabine, South Picene, Oscan | ||||
| Umbrian | Aequian, Marsian, Umbrian, Volscian | ||||
| Vestinian | Vestinian | ||||
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Corsican,
Dalmatian,
Istriot,
Neapolitan,
Sicilian
Moldovan,
Sardian,
Leonese,
Catalan
Friulian,
Ladin,
Romansh
