Catalan orthography

Catalan orthography

This article covers the Orthography of Catalan, a Romance language. The Catalan alphabet is adapted from the Latin alphabet.

Other conventions

Catalan also possesses digraphs:
* represents IPA|/tɕ/ after a vowel : "puig"
* represents IPA|/ɕ/ after a vowel : "mateix"
* represents IPA|/dʑ/ : "prometatge"
* represents IPA|/tɕ/ at the ends of words and IPA|/dʑ/ otherwise : "corretja"
* represents IPA|/tɕ/ : "despatx"
* ("ela geminada") represents IPA|/ll/ (distinguishing it from , which represents IPA|/ʎ/) : "anul·lar"
* represents IPA|/ɲ/ : "any"

Catalan also uses the acute accent ("é, í, ó, ú") to mark stressed high vowels and the grave accent ("à, è, ò") to mark stressed low vowels :
*"també" "also" IPA| [təmˈbe]
*"pròxim" "nearby" IPA| [ˈprɔksim]

If a diaeresis appears over the "i" or "u" of what would otherwise be a descending diphthong, the diphthong is broken into a hiatus :
*"raïm" "grape" IPA| [rəˈim]
*"taüt" "coffin" IPA| [təˈut]

In addition to this, ü represents IPA|/w/ between IPA|/g/ and a front vowel (which would otherwise be pronounced as a soft "g" :
*"ungüent" "ointment" IPA| [uŋgw'en]

Notes

ee also

*Catalan phonology


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