List of Latin-script pentagraphs
In the Latin script, pentagraphs are found primarily in Irish orthography. There is one archaic pentagraph in German orthography, which is found in the English word Nietzschean.
Irish[edit]
Used between a velarized ("broad") and a palatalized ("slender") consonant:
To write the sound /əu̯/ (in Donegal, /oː/):
- ⟨abhai⟩, ⟨amhai⟩, ⟨obhai⟩, ⟨odhai⟩, and ⟨oghai⟩
To write the sound /əi̯/ (in Donegal, /eː/):
- ⟨adhai⟩, ⟨aghai⟩
To write the sound /əi̯/:
- ⟨oidhi⟩ and ⟨oighi⟩
To write the sound /oː/:
- ⟨omhai⟩
Used between a slender and a broad consonant:
To write the sound /əu̯/ (in Donegal, /oː/):
- ⟨eabha⟩ and ⟨eamha⟩
To write the sound /əi̯/ (in Donegal, /eː/):
- ⟨eadha⟩
Used between two slender consonants:
- To write the sound /əi̯/: ⟨eidhi⟩ and ⟨eighi⟩
Dutch[edit]
⟨sjtsj⟩ is used as the transcription of the Cyrillic letter Щ, representing the consonant /ɕː/ in Russian, for example in the name Chroesjtsjov.
French[edit]
⟨chtch⟩ is used as the transcription of the Cyrillic letter Щ, representing the consonant /ɕː/ in Russian, for example in the name Khrouchtchev.
German[edit]
⟨tzsch⟩ was once used in German to write the sound /tʃ/. It has largely been replaced by the tetragraph ⟨tsch⟩, but is still found in proper names such as Tzschirner and Nietzsche.