Possible Pronunciation and Phonemic Representation of all English Letters lesson 1
Possible Pronunciation and Phonemic Representation of all English Letters Do you know that the English language has only one alphabet? Yes! There is only one alphabetical system used in the English language. An alphabet is a set of letters used when writing in a language. In other words, it is a writing system in which letters represent phonemes (meaning distinguishing sounds), that is, letters represent consonant and vowel phonemes. The alphabetical system used in the English language is the Latin alphabet , consisting of 26 letters, each having an uppercase and a lowercase form: Figure 1: An English pangram displaying all the characters in context. Below is a table with the English alphabet Letter lowercase Name Transcription A a A /ˈeɪ/ B b Bee /ˈbi:/ C c Cee /ˈsi:/ D d Dee /ˈdi:/ E e