

Used in the digraph ch /tʃ/, which is sometimes indistinguishable from the digraph ts, or in loan words from Castilian

The letters' names are pronounced and collated in the same way as English, except for Ñ /eɲe/. These are classed either as patínig or bokáblo (vowels) and katínig or konsonánte (consonants). The 28 letters of the Alpabeto are called títik or létra, and each represents a spoken sound. In 2013, the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino released the Ortograpiyang Pambansa ("National Orthography"), a new set of guidelines that resolved phonemic representation problems previously encountered when writing some Philippine languages and dialects.Ĭ, F, J, Ñ, Q, V, X, and Z are not used in native Filipino words. For the distinction between, / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
