The French alphabet is based on the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, uppercase and lowercase, with five diacritics and two orthographic ligatures.And 8 extra letters.
So total number is : 34 alphabets.
- The first section alphabets are:
- A (ahh)
- B (bay)
- C (say)
- D (day)
- E (euh)
- F (f)
- G (jzeh)
- H (ash)
- I (ee)
- J (gzeeh)
- K (kaa)
- L (l)
- M (m)
- N (n)
- O (o)
- P (pay)
- Q (kyoon)
- R (airr(rolled r))
- S (es)
- T (tay)
- U (yooh),
- V (vay)
- W (doopla-vey)
- X (ix)
- Y (ee-grek)
- Z (zed).
- The second section extra alphabets are:
- Ç ( Ss ) (çedilla, said as sirdiya)
- Œ ( Oo )
- Æ ( Ay )
- â ( Ah )
- ê ( Eh )
- î ( Ih )
- ô ( Oah )
- û ( Oh ).
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Notes :
A diacritic – also diacritical mark, diacritical point, or diacritical sign – is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph.See the example given below :
What is a Diacritics ?
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á
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Letter a with diacritic acute | |
What is ligatures ?
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An example of Ligature is, the common ampersand ("&") .
It represents the Latin conjunctive word et, for which the English equivalent is the word "and". The ampersand's symbol is a ligature, joining the old handwritten Latin letters e and t of the word et, so that the word is represented as a single glyph.
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