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Indonesian Letters!!

I Know that the Indonesian Letters are written like litan Letters , Just like English, Francias , Deutsch,Espanol,..
I want to know if it has the same pronunciation like ''English'' letters both ''cons. and vewl.''.
Let me know
Thanks^_^

Asked by Hescho on 07:08, 21/08/2008 - 119 views
Learn Indonesian , using English      Tags: !! Bahasa Beginner Indonesian Letters Pronunciation
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the indonesian letters which are pronounced just like the german letters:
a, b, c [almost], d, e, f, g, h, i, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, z [almost]
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No, the indonesian letters are not pronounced like the english letters.

I think it's more like the german letter. At least some of the indonesian letters are pronounced like the german letters.
answered 3 months ago
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as canasta said, its not pronounced as in english letter, its like in deutsche and in dutch (indonesia has been a Netherlands sovereign for about 350 years though!!!).

a --> /Λ/ as in 'cup' (cΛp)
i --> /ee/ as in 'eel'
u --> /u:/ as in 'tool' (tu:l)
e --> /e/ as in 'ten'
o --> /o/ as in 'lob' or 'toll'

some of the consonants:
c --> as /che/ in 'check'
y --> as /y/ in 'year'
g --> as /g/ in 'gulf'
answered 3 months ago
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since Indra has given a good pronunciation for vowels, I'll give about consonants (hopefully it's understandable)

b --> ‘be’ in ‘better’
c --> ‘cze’ in “Czechoslovakia”
d --> ‘da’ in “day”
f --> f
g --> ‘ga’ in “gay”
h --> ‘ha’ in laughter “haha”
j --> j
k --> ‘co’ in “cow”
l --> l
m --> m
n --> n
p --> ‘pa’ in “pay”
q --> q
r --> ‘ar’ in “arrow”
s --> s
t --> ‘ta’ in “take”
v --> ‘ve’ in “very”
w --> ‘wa’ in “way”
x --> x
y --> ‘ya’ in “yay!”
z --> zet
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