The Tetum alphabet is used to write
Tetum
, nativename=Tetun
, states= Indonesia East Timor
, speakers=, mostly in Indonesia
, date=2010–2011
, ref=e18
, speakers2=50,000 L2-speakers in Indonesia and East Timor
, familycolor=Austronesian
, fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
, fam3= Central–East ...
. It is based on the
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered with the exception of extensions (such as diacritics), it used to write English and the o ...
and contains 24 letters:
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 Tetum, except in foreign proper names and international symbols.
The
apostrophe
The apostrophe ( or ) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe is used for two basic purposes:
* The marking of the omission of one o ...
is used to denote
glottal stop
The glottal plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents thi ...
.
External links
The standard orthography of the Tetum language(PDF)
Latin alphabets
Tetum language
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