Dutch Alphabet

The Dutch Alphabet

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Dutch is spoken by 20 million speakers mainly in the Netherlands and Belgium, some small Dutch-speaking communities in northern France. Also in Aruba, the Netherlands Antilles, Suriname and in Indonesia. Below are the Dutch Alphabet with has some slightly different pronunciation and an additional letter.

Letter	Pronunciation	Examples
A	ah	As in Amsterdam
B	bay	As 'b' in boy, like “p” at the end of the word.
C	say	As 's' before i, e and y; as 'k' in 'cat' before a, o, u and consonants
D	day	As 'd' in 'Dutch' but as 't' at the end of the word
E	ay	As in “met”
F	ef	As in “Fish”
G	khay	As in the Scottish loch, or Spanish jota “khota”
H	hah	As in “Hand” or “Holland”
I	ie	As in “Ink”
J	yay	“y” as in “you” and not as “J” in “Job”
K	kah	As in “Kiss”
L	el	As in “Language”
M	em	As in “Moon”
N	en	As in “Netherlands”
O	oh	As in “Old”
P	pay	As in “Poland”
Q	kuuh	As in “Queen”
R	err	As in “Russian”
S	ess	As in “Swedish”
T	tay	As in “Turkish”
U	uuh	As in “Put” and not like “But”
V	vay	As “f”, or as “v” in “voice”
W	way	As in “Windmill”
X	iks	As in “Complex”
Y	eh-ee	As in “type” or “Yiddish”
Z	zet	As in “Zulu”

Exceptional form:

IJ	As “ei” ” note that this is an additional combined vowel.

Combined Letters are pronounced the way the look.

Dutch Alphabet, Letters, Vowels, Dutch Consonants, Pronunciation, How to write in Dutch.