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Galician Alphabet and Pronunciation

Hello Galician learners 😊,

In today’s lesson we are going to study how to write and pronounce the Galician alphabet.

Galician is spoken mainly in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain where it is co-official with Spanish.

You will find in the table below the different letters of its alphabet and their pronunciation.

Alphabet and Pronunciation in Galician

Letter	Name	IPA
A a	a	[a]
B b	be	[b]
C c	ce	[θ], [k]
D d	de	[d]
E e	e	[e], [ɛ]
F f	efe	[f]
G g	gue	[g]
H h	hache	Ø
I i	i	[i]
L l	ele	[l]
M m	eme	[m]
N n	ene	[n]
Ñ ñ	eñe	[ɲ]
O o	o	[o], [ɔ]
P p	pe	[p]
Q q	que	[k]
R r	erre	[ɾ], [r]
S s	ese	[s͇]
T t	te	[t]
U u	u	[u]
V v	uve	[b]
X x	xe	[ʃ], [ks͇]
Z z	zeta	[θ]

Digraph	Name	Phonemic values
ch	ce hache	/tʃ/
gu	gue u	/g/
ll	ele dobre	/ʎ/
nh	ene hache	/ŋ/
qu	que u	/k/
rr	erre dobre	/r/

LETTERS IN GALICIAN	PRONUNCIATION (ENGLISH SPEAKERSPRONUNCIATION
A	ah
B	b
CA / CO / CU	kah / koh / kou
CE / CI	seh / sih
CH	ch
D	d
E	eh
F	f
GA / GO / GU	gah / goh / gou
GE / GI	heh / hih
H	no sound
I	ih
J	zh
K	k
L	l
LL	lih
M	m
N	n
Ñ	nih
O	oh
P	p
Q	k
R	r
S	s
T	t
U	ou
V	b
W	u
X	sh / ks
Y	ih
Z	s