The Tetum alphabet is used to write

Tetum Tetum may refer to: * Tetum language, an Austronesian language ** Tetum alphabet, used to write the Tetum language * Tetum people, an ethnic group of East Timor and Indonesia {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...

. It is based on the

Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the Ancient Rome, ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered except several letters splitting—i.e. from , and from � ...

and contains 24 letters: The letters are named: . 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'' (, //) and ''RR'' (, //) only occur in loanwords. The letters ''C'' (), ''Q'' (), and ''Y'' () are not used in Tetum, except in foreign proper names and international symbols. The

apostrophe The apostrophe (, ) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe is used for two basic purposes: * The marking of the omission of one o ...

() is used to denote

glottal stop The glottal stop or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many Speech communication, spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis. The symbol in the International Phonetic ...

External links

The standard orthography of the Tetum language
(PDF) Latin alphabets Tetum language {{latin-script-stub