1.1. Alphabet

Like Romance languages, Neolatin uses the Latin alphabet. It consists of the traditional Roman alphabet <A, B, C, D, E,...> expanded with the new letters <J, U, W> and the Greek letters <Y, Z>, both uppercase and lowercase.

LETTER	NAME(S)
A, a	a   [a]
B, b	be   [be]
C, c	ce   [ʧe]
D, d	de   [de]
E, e	e   [e]
F, f	fe1    [fe]  |  èffe2    ['ɛffe]
G, g	ge   [ʤe]
H, h	hacca   ['akka]
I, i	i   [i]
J, j	je3    [ʤe]  |  i lònga    [i 'lɔŋga]  |  jota    ['ʤota]
K, k	ca    [ka]  |  cappa    ['kappa]
L, l	le    [le]  |  èlle    ['ɛlle]
M, m	me    [me]  |  èmme    ['ɛmme]
N, n	ne    [ne]  |  ènne    ['ɛnne]
O, o	o   [o]
P, p	pe   [pe]
Q, q	cu   [ku]
R, r	re    [ɾe]  |  èrre    ['ɛre]
S, s	se    [ɾe]  |  èsse    ['ɛsse]
T, t	te   [te]
U, u	u   [u]
V, v	ve   [ve]
W, w	ve dople    [ve 'dople]  |  dople v    [dople 've]
X, x	ics   [iks]
Y, y	ye    [je]  |  i grèca    [i 'gɾɛka]  |  ípsilon    ['ipsilon]
Z, z	zèta   ['zɛta]   ['ʣɛta]

The letters <k>, <w>, <y> and <z> are mainly used in technical words of international use and in non-Romanized loanwords.

Footnotes

1. The names fe, le, me, ne, re, se, ye follow the model set by the names be, ce, de, ge, pe, te, which are forms that are already present with the long e, ē ,in Latin (ve did not exist yet as a distinct letter from u). Those regularized forms (except ye, which is a Spanish creation) are found as variants in French (according to the Littré dictionary) and Romanian. ↩

2. Latin had the names ĕf, ĕl, ĕm, ĕn, ĕr, ĕs, from which came the Romance forms èf/èffe,èl/èlle, etc. The etymological variant is found in Catalan (rarely used now), French and Romanian; the extended variant in Portuguese, Spanish (the form that Catalan now also uses) and Italian. ↩

3. The name je (systematic with be, ce, de, etc.) can be used in its written form without any problem. Orally, it could be confused with ge; therefore, the descriptive name i lònga is a safer option. ↩