Walloon alphabet
The Walloon alphabet consist of the basic ISO Latin Alphabet, and four types of diacritic.
| Letter | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | a | bé | cé | dé | e | effe | gé | ache | i | ji | ka | elle | emme | enne | o | pé | qu | erre | esse | té | u | vé | wé | icse | î gréc / yod | zéde |
| IPA | /a/ | /b/ | /k/, /s/ | /d/ | /ɛ/ | /f/ | /ɡ/ | /h/ | /i/, /ɪ/ | /ʒ/ | /k/ | /l/ | /m/ | /n/ | /ɔ/ | /p/ | /k/ | /ʀ/ | /s/ | /t/ | /y/, /ʏ/ | /v/ | /w/ | /ks/ | /j/ | /z/ |
Diacritics[]
Diacritics used in this language are the acute accent (´), grave accent (`), circumflex (ˆ), ring (°), and cedilla (¸). In some dialects, the umlaut (¨) is used.[2] These accents have no effect on the alphabetic order of these letters.
Grapheme Pronunciation à a â aː å aː, oː, ɔː ç s é e è ɛː ê eː e̊/ë ə ì ɪ î iː ô ʊː, oː, ɔ̃ ö ɔ̃ ù ʏ û yː
Digraphs[]
aî is only used in the Namur dialect.
Digraph Pronunciation ae a/ɛ ai eː/ɛː aî eː an ã/ɔ̃ ån ? ch ʃ dj d͡ʒ ea eː/ɛː/ja en ã/ɔ̃ én ẽ/e/ɛ̃/ĩ eu œ/ø ey ɛj/ɛːj/iːj/iː gn/ny ɲ in ɛ̃ î-n ĩ jh h, ʒ oe wɛ, ø, ɛ, œ oi wa, wɛ on ɔ̃ ou u oû uː ss s sch h, ʃ, ç, χ sh ʃ, s tch t͡ʃ, tj un œ̃ xh h, ʃ
References[]
- ^ http://www.omniglot.com/writing/walloon.htm 2014 January 11
- ^ http://users.skynet.be/lorint/croejh/node18.html 2014 January 11
Categories:
- Latin alphabets