Malay/Alphabet

The Malay alphabet consists of 26 letters from the Latin alphabet, like the English alphabet, and is based of the Latin script. There are two different types of script used in Malay. One being the commonly used one, which is the Rumi script, and the Jawi script, which some regions would use combined with the latter.

Aa sounds like as in the word “sofa” or "father". [ /a/ ]

Bb sounds the same as in English such as in the word "bed" or "bovine". [ /b/ ]

Cc sounds like 'tch' such as in the word "'check" or "chop" [ /t͡ʃ/ ]. It never sounds like k' such as "chemist" or "anchor" [ /k/ ].

Dd sounds the same as in English such as in the word "day" or "detect". [ /d/ ]

Ee has two sounds which are as in the word "tolerant" or "parent" [ /ə/ ] and "hey" or "they" [ /e/ ~ é ]. The first and second 'e' sound in the word "beverage" are respective as stated before.

Ff sounds the same as in English such as in the word "food" or "fine". [ /f/ ]

Gg sounds like as in the word "good" and "great" [ /ɡ/ ] and never as in "gist"

Hh as in “Hotel”

Ii as in the word “ink” never as in the word “island”

Jj same as in English “job”

Kk same as in English.

Ll like “l” in “life”.

Mm same as in English

Nn same as in English

Oo same as in English “Old” never as in “Hot” which is pronounced somehow like {hat}

Pp same as in English

Qq same as in English.

Rr same as in English

Ss same as in English

Tt same as in English but not as sharp.

Uu as in the “put”, never as in the word “cup” or “university”

Vv same as in English

Ww same as in English

Xx as “kh”, sometimes as “ks”

Yy same as in English.

Zz same as in English.

dz as “th” in “that”

kh as “ch” in “loch”

Ua as “ua”

Ny as “ñ” in the “español”

Ng as “ng” in the “sing”

Ngg as in “singing girl”

Sy as in “sh”

The names of the letters are basically the same, except for Z, which is "zed".