The writing of the Basque is written with the Latin alphabet. The alphabet Basque is overall Phonétique, all the letter S of a Mot decide except for the H which is dumb in the majority of the dialects. Generally, the Voyelle S which are followed form a Diphtongue.
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has : (as in French)
- B has: B (as in French)
- D : D (as in French)
- E : E
- F : F (as in French)
- G : G (always hard, even in front of I )
- H : H (dumb, sometimes aspired)
- I : I (as in French)
- J : there (J in Biscayen and Souletin), D palatal (Labourd and Navarre), fricative velar deaf person (Guipúzcoa)
- K : K (as in French)
- L : L (as in French)
- m : m (as in French)
- N : N (as in French)
- ñ : ñ (as in Spanish or " gn" in French)
- O : O (O open as in French)
- p : p (as in French)
- R : R rolled once (evokes the L )
- rr : R rolled common
- S : S rétroflexe (language pointed upwards)
- T : T (as in French)
- tt : T palatal wet (one can like tye )
- ts : ts rétroflexe
- tx : tch
- tz : ts
- U : or
- X : CH
- Z : S