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 THE ESPERANTO ALPHABET (WITH PHONETIC PRONUNCIATION).

The Esperanto Alphabet has 28 letters--23 consonants, 5 vowels:--

Characters. | Name and English Pronunciation. | Phonetics |                                            | used. |                                            |  +-+---  A, a        | (ah) like _a_ in _father_ or _pa_; as       | | _patro_ (pah'troh). In unaccented syllables | | it should not be dwelt upon, and in all    | | cases it should be pronounced quite purely, | | without the slight drawling _r_-sound which | | is sometimes added to the corresponding    | | vowel in English                           | ah              |                                             | B, b       | (bo) as in English                          | b              |                                             | C, c       | (tsoh) like _ts_ in _gets_, _hits_, and     | | never as in English; as _caro_ (tsah'roh)  | ts              |                                             | Ĉ, ĉ       | (cho) like _ch_ in _church_; as _ĉasi_      | | (chah'see)                                 | ch              |                                             | D, d       | (do) as in English, but with tip of tongue  | | placed on back of teeth instead of on front | | ridge of roof of mouth                     | d              |                                             | E, e       | (eh) like _e_ in _bend_ pronounced broadly, | | or _a_ in _hate_ shortly pronounced, but   | | quite pure, entirely without the slight    | | drawling _ee_-sound often heard after the  | | English vowel; as _beno_ (beh'noh)         | e, eh              |                                             | F, f       | (fo) as in English                          | f              |                                             | G, g       | (go) like _g_ in _go_, _give_, as _gasto_   | | (gah'stoh), and never like _g_ in _gem_,   | | _allege_                                   | g              |                                             | Ĝ, ĝ       | (jo) like _g_ in _gem_, _general_, and _j_  | | in _jovial_; as _ĝeni_ (jeh'nee)           | j              |                                             | H, h       | (ho) as in English                          | h              |                                             | Ĥ, ĥ       | (ĥo) like _ch_ in Scotch _loch_, _ch_ in    | | German _hoch_, _j_ in Spanish _mujer_. This | | guttural sound is practically a very       | | strongly aspirated _h_, and may be made by | | trying to pronounce "ho" with the throat   | | arranged as for saying _k_:--_ĥoro_        | | (khoro), _ĥino_ (khino)                    | _kh_ |                                            |  I, i        | (ee) like _ee_ in _seen_, as _li_ (lee). In | | unaccented syllables, and before two       | | consonants together, this _i_ practically  | | becomes the _i_ in _it_ or in _wind_; as   | | _ferminte_ (fehrr-min'teh)                 | ee, i