PART I PRIMEIRA PARTE
SOUND AND WRITE FONÉTICA E ESCRITA
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CHAPTER 1 LETTER LETRA
*quote from
http://www.portugues.com.br/default.asp
Ortografia
Palavra constituída das partes:
orto (correta) +grafia (escrita).
A ortografia é a parte da gramática que trata da correta escrita das palavras.
Alfabeto português
Nosso alfabeto é composto de 23 letras:
a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, x, z
Observação: Você deve estar se perguntando pelas letras W, Y e K.Elas não pertencem mais ao nosso alfabeto.São usadas apenas em casos especiais:
nomes próprios estrangeiros ( Wellington,Willian.... ),
abreviaturas e símbolos de uso internacional (K- potássio,Y-ítrio..),
palavras estrangeiras (show, play...)
1-alfabeto = alfa (a) + beta (b). As letras "a" e "b" são as duas primeiras letras do alfabeto grego.*
see the history of Portuguese plz. consult
http://www.linguaportuguesa.ufrn.br/
The following is my translation continued after the contents:
1.1 general notions noções gerais
When sounds and phones are written, they form letters.
According to "Orthographic Accord of the Portuguese Language (1990)", the Portuguese language is composed of 26 letters, i.e.
a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j , k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y and
z.
Of them, 3 letters k, w, and y can only be used on special occasions, for example, in alien words or abbreviations: darwinismo(darwinism); Pyongyang; km(quilómetro=kilometer). So the former orthographic accord only admitted 23 letters, plus 3 alien letters.
Every PT letter has its nomination, and some even has more than one. The "Orthographic Accord of the Portuguese Language (1990)" proposes the official nomination of letters in the alphabet set out in its Appendix I, and where notes that it does not exclude traditional nomination of some letters. In tradition, for example,
w is also "duplo vê", and
y "i grego".
The nomination of a PT letter may differ from the phone it represents. For example, o, named ó, can be pronounced [u]: médic
o, c
ozinha (kitchen).
Every PT letter has two forms as in CAPITAL and lower case, like a and A is the same word, but a is the lower case, and A capital.
Besides, PT letters are also differentiated as in print and script, i.e. a is lower case in print, while
a is usually the lower case in script.
In Portuguese, the alphabet is alfabeto or abecedário. The former comes from Greek, alfa and beta are names of the first two letters of Greek; and the latter is originated from Latin, which is formed by the names of the first three letters of Latin alphabet.
1.2 alphabet alfabeto
The following alphabet is arranged in accordance with the alphabet set out in the Appendix I of the "Orthographic Accord of the Portuguese Language (1990)":
Letter#
Nomination
aA#
á
bB#
bê
cC#
cê
dD#
dê
eE#
é
fF#
efe
gG#
gê, guê
hH#
agá
iI#
i
jJ#
jota
kK#
capa, cá
lL#
ele
mM#
eme
nN#
ene
oO#
ó
pP#
pê
qQ#
quê
rR#
erre
sS#
esse
tT#
tê
uU#
u
vV#
vê
wW#
dáblio
xX#
xis
yY#
ípsilon
zZ#
zê
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