Does Portuguese have 26 letters?

1. Overview of letters No?es gerais

The phonetic factors are expressed in words and become letters.

The "Portuguese Orthography Agreement" (1990) stipulates that Portuguese has 26 letters, which are: 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.

Among the 26 letters, the three letters k, w, and y are only used on special occasions, such as in foreign words or abbreviations: Darwinismo (Darwinism); Pyongyang (Pyongyang); Km ( quilómetro kilometers). Therefore, previous orthographic agreements had stipulated that Portuguese had only twenty-three letters, plus three foreign letters.

Each letter of the Portuguese alphabet has its own name, and some letters have more than one name. The Portuguese Orthography Agreement (1990) proposed the standardized names of letters in the alphabet in Annex 1, but it also stated that it did not exclude the traditional names of some letters. For example, according to tradition, people also call w "duplo vê" and y "i grego".

The pronunciation of names of Portuguese letters does not necessarily exactly match the phonemes they represent. For example, the letter o, the name is pronounced as ó, and the pronunciation can be [u]; medico (doctor), cozinha (kitchen).

Each letter in Portuguese has both lowercase and uppercase forms. For example, A and a represent the same letter, A is uppercase, and a is lowercase.

In addition, Portuguese letters are also divided into printed and handwritten letters.

Portuguese calls the alphabet alfabeto or abecedário.

The former comes from Greek, where alfa and beta are the first two letters of the language; the latter originates from Latin and is formed from the names of the first three letters of the alphabet.

Print letters Name Printed Letter Name

Lowercase Uppercase Lowercase Uppercase

a A á n N ene

b B bê o O ó

c C cê p P pê

d D dê q Q quê

e E é r R erre

f F efe s S esse

g G gê,guê t T tê

h H agá u U u

i I i v V vê

j J jota w W dáblio