Latin:Sounds and Writing

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LINGVALATINA
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Indo-european Italic la.png Vatican City, Ancient Rome Latin

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
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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