Portuguese Grammar/Alphabet

Portuguese alphabet, like in other Romance languages has a natural evolution from latin and so it is not strictly phonetic and has some features inheirited 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.

Note: the letter q is always preceded by a u. k, w, and y are not used in native Portuguese words.

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

Diacritics
In Portuguese, a letter with no or with Diacritics are considered the same thing. So, in alphabetic order, we have: entender, ética, Europa.

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