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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

LETTERS IN GALICIAN	PRONUNCIATION ENGLISH SPEAKERS	PRONUNCIATION PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS
A	ah	a
B	b	b
CA / CO / CU	kah / koh / kou	ca / co / cu
CE / CI	seh / sih	se / si
CH	ch	tch
D	d	d
E	eh	e
F	f	f
GA / GO / GU	gah / goh / gou	ga / go / gu
GE / GI	heh / hih	re / ri
H	no sound	sem som
I	ih	i
J	zh	j
K	k	k
L	l	l
LL	lih	lh
M	m	m
N	n	n
Ñ	nih	nh
O	oh	o
P	p	p
Q	k	q
R	r	r
S	s	s
T	t	t
U	ou	u
V	b	b
W	u	u
X	sh / ks	ch / ks
Y	ih	i
Z	s	s

An other explanation and details

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