Welsh orthography uses 28 letters (including eight digraphs) of the Latin script to write native Welsh words as well as older loanwords.
| Majuscule forms (also called uppercase or capital letters) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A | B | C | CH | D | DD | E | F | FF | G | NG | H | I | L | LL | M | N | O | P | PH | R | RH | S | T | TH | U | W | Y |
| Minuscule forms (also called lowercase or small letters) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| a | b | c | ch | d | dd | e | f | ff | g | ng | h | i | l | ll | m | n | o | p | ph | r | rh | s | t | th | u | w | y |
The acute accent, the grave accent, the circumflex and the diaeresis mark are also used on vowels, but accented letters are not regarded as part of the alphabet.
The letter j is accepted in Welsh orthography for those words borrowed from English in which the /dʒ/ sound is retained in Welsh, even where that sound is not represented by j in English spelling, as in garej (for garage). Some borrowed words that are spelt with a j in English may be pronounced with either /dʒ/ or /ʃ/ in Welsh; the latter pronunciation is represented by si, as in Siapan for Japan.
The letters k, v, x and z are used in some technical terms, like kilogram, volt, xeroser and zero, but in all cases can be, and often are, replaced by Welsh letters: cilogram, folt, seroser and sero. Nevertheless, in the Welsh colony in Patagonia, v is used generally to represent the sound /v/.
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