Latin phonemes
Phonemes (transliterated into SAMPA):A /a/ (as in father)
B /b/
C /k/
D /d/
E /e/ (as in bet)
F /f/
G /g/
H /h/
I /i/ (as in English see) or
I /j/ (as in English yet)
K occurs in very few words (mostly loanwords from Greek), and is pronounced like C.
L /l/
M /m/
N /n/
O /o/ (as in oboe)
P /p/
Q /k_w/
R /r/
S /s/
T /t/
V /u/ (as in English boot) or
V /w/
/N/ written g, called agma. Minimal pair: agnus /aNnus/ - annus /annus/
Other minimal pairs:
/anus/ 'old woman' - /a:nus/ 'ring, anus' - /annus/ 'year'
/palam/ 'public' - /pa:lam/ 'spade (acc. sg.)' - /pallam/ 'woman's robe (acc.sg.)'
- See also : Latin language
