Basque alphabet

Basque manual alphabet

The Basque alphabet is a Latin-derived alphabet used to write the Basque language. It consists of 27 letters.

List of letters

The letters of the Basque alphabet are the 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet plus the ñ (and the ç, as a variant of the c).

This is the whole list:

Letter	Basque name
A	a
B	be
C	ze* (and its variant Ç ze hautsia*)
D	de
E	e
F	efe
G	ge
H	hatxe
I	i
J	jota
K	ka
L	ele
M	eme
N	ene
Ñ	eñe
O	o
P	pe
Q	ku*
R	erre
S	ese
T	te
U	u
V	uve*
W	uve bikoitza*
X	ixa
Y	i grekoa*
Z	zeta
* Although letters C, Ç, Q, V, W, and Y are not used in writing traditional Basque-language words, they were included in the Basque alphabet for writing words borrowed from other languages that do use them.

Digraphs

There are several digraphs (successive letters used to represent a single sound):

DD LL RR TS TT TX TZ

Letter frequencies

In a sample of 6,692 letters the most common letter in Basque is a.

See also

• Latin-derived alphabet

External links

• Basque language – English Pen
• The Basque Alphabet