Occitan_alphabet

Occitan alphabet

Occitan alphabet

Alphabet of the Occitan language


The Occitan alphabet consists of the following 23 Latin letters:

Majuscule forms (also called uppercase or capital letters)
ABCDEFGHIJLMNOPQRSTUVXZ
Minuscule forms (also called lowercase or small letters)
abcdefghijlmnopqrstuvxz

The letters K, W and Y are considered foreign by Occitanians and are used only in words of foreign origin, incrementally integrated into Occitan, such as whisky, watt, Kenya. They may be included in the Occitan alphabet following the order in the international alphabet.[1]

Letter names

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The letter names are usually feminine. They may also be masculine, in which case the feminine names be nauta (B), ve bassa (V), ve dobla (W) and i grèga (Y) become masculine be naut, be bas, ve doble and i grèc.

Elision is common before a letter starting with a vowel.

Diacritics

Several diacritics serve to modify the pronunciation of the letters of the Occitan alphabet.

  • The grave accent (accent grèu) found on à, è, ò.
  • The acute accent (accent agut) found on á, é, í, ó, ú.
  • The diaeresis (trèma) ¨ found on ï, ü.
  • The cedilla (cedilha) ¸ found under ç.
  • The interpunct (ponch interior, punt interior) · found between two consecutive consonants: n·h and s·h. This is used in Gascon Occitan, which features [h] as an allophone of /f/. In the Middle Ages, the interpunct was common throughout Aquitania (see Old Occitan).

The diacritics are required on the capitals. For example: Índia, Àustria, Sant Çubran, FÒRÇA, SOÏSSA, IN·HÈRN.

Sound-to-spelling correspondences

Unless noted, regional IPA values are the same as Standard Occitan. Despite being listed as dialect of Occitan, Gascon are listed as separate language here and it is excluded from this list.

Consonants

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Vowels

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See also


References


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