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List of Latin-script pentagraphs

In the Latin script, pentagraphs are found primarily in Irish orthography. There is one archaic pentagraph in German orthography, which is found in the English words Nietzschean and derivatives (, Nietzscheanist, Nietzscheism, Nietzscheist).

Examples

Irish

Used between a velarized ("broad") and a palatalized ("slender") consonant:

, , , and are used to write (like RP 'oa' in 'goat'; in Ulster)

is used to write

and are used to write ( in Ulster)

, , , , and are used to write

is used to write

is used to write

Used between a slender and a broad consonant:

and used to write ( in Ulster)

is used to write

and are used to write ( in Ulster)

is used to write

Used between two slender consonants:

and are used to write :

Dutch

is used as the transcription of the Cyrillic letter Щ, representing the consonant in Russian, for example in the name Chroesjtsjov.

English

is used in the English names Gaughan and Vaughan to represent the sound /ɔː/.

French

is used as the transcription of the Cyrillic letter Щ, representing the consonant in Russian, for example in the name Khrouchtchev.

is pronounced as /k(ə)/ when the silent plural suffix -s is added to the tetragraph cque and in the proper name Jacques.

German

was once used in German to write the sound (ch as in cheese). It has largely been replaced by the tetragraph , but is still found in proper names such as Tzschirner, Nietzsche, Fritzsche, and Delitzsch.

St. Lawrence Island Yupik

is used in the variant of Central Siberian Yupik language spoken on St. Lawrence Island to write the sound i.e. the labialized version of the voiceless velar nasal. Exaple: "naangngwaaghaquq" ('he/she/it is swimming').

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