Tetum alphabet

The Tetum alphabet is used to write Tetum. It is based on the Latin alphabet and contains 24 letters:

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bgcolor="#EFEFEF" align="center" colspan="24" | Majuscule Forms (also called uppercase or capital letters)

width=3% align="center"|A

width=3% align="center"|B

width=3% align="center"|D

width=3% align="center"|E

width=3% align="center"|F

width=3% align="center"|G

width=3% align="center"|H

width=3% align="center"|I

width=3% align="center"|J

width=3% align="center"|K

width=3% align="center"|L

width=3% align="center"|M

width=3% align="center"|N

width=3% align="center"|Ñ

width=3% align="center"|O

width=3% align="center"|P

width=3% align="center"|R

width=3% align="center"|S

width=3% align="center"|T

width=3% align="center"|U

width=3% align="center"|V

width=3% align="center"|W

width=3% align="center"|X

width=3% align="center"|Z

align="center" colspan="24" | Minuscule Forms (also called lowercase or small letters)

align="center"|a

align="center"|b

align="center"|d

align="center"|e

align="center"|f

align="center"|g

align="center"|h

align="center"|i

align="center"|j

align="center"|k

align="center"|l

align="center"|m

align="center"|n

align="center"|ñ

align="center"|o

align="center"|p

align="center"|r

align="center"|s

align="center"|t

align="center"|u

align="center"|v

width=3% align="center"|w

align="center"|x

align="center"|z

align="center" colspan="24" | International Phonetic Alphabet values

align="center"|{{IPA-link|a}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|b}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|d}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|e}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|f}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|ɡ}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|h}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|i}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|ʒ}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|k}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|l}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|m}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|n}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|ɲ}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|o}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|p}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|ɾ}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|s}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|t}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|u}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|v}}

width=3% align="center"|{{IPA-link|w}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|ʃ}}

align="center"|{{IPA-link|z}}

The letters are named: {{lang|tet|á, bé, dé, é, efe, ge, agá, í, jota, kapa, ele, eme, ene, ene ho til, ó, pé, erre, ese, té, ú, vé, vé-kaduak, xis, zé}}.

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 ({{lang|tet|ele-kaduak}}, /{{IPA-link|ʎ}}/) and RR ({{lang|tet|erre-kaduak}}, /{{IPA-link|r}}/) only occur in loanwords.

The letters C ({{lang|tet|sé}}), Q ({{lang|tet|ké}}), and Y ({{lang|tet|ípsilon}}) are not used in Tetum, except in foreign proper names and international symbols.

The apostrophe ({{lang|tet|kapa-tatolan}}) is used to denote glottal stop.