Galician alphabet

The Galician alphabet is used for writing the Galician language. According to the modern and official standard, it has 23 letters and 6 digraphs. The extraneous letters $⟨j⟩$, $⟨k⟩$, $⟨w⟩$ and $⟨y⟩$ are sporadically found in foreign words, abbreviations and international symbols.

As in Portuguese and unlike in Spanish, Galician letter names are of masculine grammatical gender.

The Medieval Galician alphabet, still used today by advocates of reintegrationism, featured the additional letters $⟨j⟩$ /ʃ/ and $⟨ç⟩$ /θ/ (or /s/ in areas with sigmatism) as well as the digraphs $⟨lh⟩$ /ʎ/, $⟨nh⟩$ /ɲ/ and $⟨ss⟩$ /s/.