Corsican alphabet

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The modern Corsican alphabet (Corsican u santacroce or u salteriu) uses 24 letters taken from the Latin alphabet with some changes. The pronunciations of the English, French, Italian or Latin forms of these letters are not a guide to their pronunciation in Corsu, which has its own pronunciation, often the same, but frequently not. As can be seen from the table below, two of the letters are trigraphs. Nearly all the letters are allophonic; that is, a phoneme of the language might have more than one pronunciation and be represented by more than one letter. The exact pronunciation depends mainly on word order and usage and is governed by a complex set of rules, variable to some degree by dialect. These have to be learned by the speaker of the language.

[edit] Modern alphabet

Order
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Majuscule Forms (also called uppercase or capital letters)
A	B	C	CHJ	D	E	F	G	GHJ	H	I	J	L	M	N	O	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	Z
Minuscule Forms (also called lowercase or small letters)
a	b	c	chj	d	e	f	g	ghj	h	i	j	l	m	n	o	p	q	r	s	t	u	v	z
Names
a	bi	ci	chji	dè	è	èffè	gi	ghjè	acca	i	ji	èllè	èmmè	ènnè	o	pè	cu	èrrè	èssè	ti	u	vè	zèda
IPA transcription of names
[a]	[bi]	[ʧi]	[ci]	[dɛ]	[ɛ]	['ɛffɛ]	[ʤɛ]	[ɟɛ]	['akka]	[i]	[ji]	['ɛllɛ]	['ɛmmɛ]	['ɛnnɛ]	[o]	[pɛ]	[ku]	['ɛrrɛ]	['ɛssɛ]	[ti]	[u]	[vɛ]	[dz'ɛda]