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Alphabet and Pronunciation in Galician

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Hello Everyone, 😊

In today’s lesson we are going to study the following topic: ”ALPHABET AND PRONUNCIATION” in Galician

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Good learning!

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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.

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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]