Walloon alphabet

The Walloon alphabet consist of the basic ISO Latin Alphabet, and four types of diacritic.

Walloon Alphabet [1]
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 aeeffeachei jikaelleemmeenneoquerreesseu icseî gréc / yodzéde
IPA /a//b//k/, /s//d//ɛ//f//ɡ//h//i/, /ɪ//ʒ//k//l//m//n//o//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
â
å , , ɔː
ç s
é e
è e
ê e
ë ɛː
ə
î
ô ʊː, , ɔ̃ː
ö o
û

Digraphs

Digraph Pronunciation
ae a/ɛ
ai /ɛː
an ã/ɔ̃
ch ʃ
dj d͡ʒ
ea /ɛː/ja
én /e/ɛ̃/ĩ
eu œ/ø
ey ɛj/ɛːj/j/
gn/ny ɲ
in ɛ̃
jh h, ʒ
oe wa, wɛ, ø, ɛ, œ
oi wa, wɛ
on ɔ̃
ou u
ss s
sch h, ʃ, ç, χ
sh ʃ, s
tch t͡ʃ, tj
un œ̃
xh h, ʃ

References

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