Tetun alphabet

The Tetun (or Tetum) alphabet is used to write the Tetun language. It is based on the Latin alphabet and contains 24 letters:

Majuscule Forms (also called uppercase or capital letters)ABDEFGHIJKLMNÑOPRSTUVWXZ Minuscule Forms (also called lowercase or small letters)abdefghijklmnñoprstuvwxz International Phonetic Alphabet values

The letters are named: .

The accented letters á, é, í, ó, and ú are also used.

The letter W only occurs in some words of dialectal or foreign origin.

The letters G, J, Ñ, P, V, X, and Z and the digraphs LL (, //) and RR (, //) only occur in loanwords.

The letters C (), Q (), and Y () are not used in Tetun, except in foreign proper names and international symbols.

The apostrophe () is used to denote glottal stop.

External links The standard orthography of the Tetum language (PDF)