Macedonian Alphabet - The Alphabet

The Alphabet

Origins:

  • Phoenician alphabet
    • Greek alphabet
      • Latin alphabet
      • Cyrillic script
        • Macedonian Cyrillic alphabet

The following table provides the upper and lower case forms of the Macedonian alphabet, along with the IPA value for each letter:

Letter
IPA
Name		 А а
/a/
/a/		 Б б
/b/
/bə/		 В в
/v/
/və/		 Г г
/ɡ/
/gə/		 Д д
/d/
/də/		 Ѓ ѓ
/ɟ/
/ɟə/		 Е е
/ɛ/
/ɛ/		 Ж ж
/ʒ/
/ʒə/		 З з
/z/
/zə/		 Ѕ ѕ
/d͡z/
/d͡zə/
Letter
IPA
Name		 И и
/i/
/i/		 Ј ј
/j/
/jə/		 К к
/k/
/kə/		 Л л
/l/
/lə/		 Љ љ
/lj/, /ʎ/
/ʎə/		 М м
/m/
/mə/		 Н н
/n/
/nə/		 Њ њ
/ɲ/
/ɲə/		 О о
/ɔ/
/ɔ/		 П п
/p/
/pə/
Letter
IPA
Name		 Р р
/r/
/rə/		 С с
/s/
/sə/		 Т т
/t/
/tə/		 Ќ ќ
/c/
/cə/		 У у
/u/
/u/		 Ф ф
/f/
/fə/		 Х х
/x/
/xə/		 Ц ц
/t͡s/
/t͡sə/		 Ч ч
/t͡ʃ/
/t͡ʃə/		 Џ џ
/d͡ʒ/
/d͡ʒə/		 Ш ш
/ʃ/
/ʃə/

In addition to the standard sounds of the letters Ѓ and Ќ above, in some accents these letters represent /dʑ/ and /tɕ/, respectively.

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