Portuguese/Contents/Complete Pronunciation

Portuguese alphabet, like in other Romance languages has a natural evolution from Latin and so it is not strictly phonetic and has some features inherited from its history. Although, compared to English or even French it is easy to read and not so hard to write.

Letters
The sounds are better explained in the next chapters.

Glossary:
 * Coda: the sounds in a syllable after the vowel, for example t in spit;
 * Onset: the sounds in a syllable before the vowel, for example sp in spit;
 * Nucleus: the vowel of a syllable;
 * Glide: the sounds /j/ and /w/;
 * Stressed: (of a syllable) which is pronounced more emphatically, for example compounding.

Note: the letter q is always followed by a u.

Digraphs
Digraphs is a pair of letters used to sign one sound.

Diacritics
In Portuguese, a letter with or without Diacritics is considered the same.