Digraphs may consist of two different characters (heterogeneous digraphs) or two instances of the same character (homogeneous digraphs). In the latter case, they are … Näytä lisää

Some languages have a unified orthography with digraphs that represent distinct pronunciations in different dialects ( Näytä lisää

Some letter pairs should not be interpreted as digraphs but appear because of compounding: hogshead and cooperate. They are often not … Näytä lisää

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English has both homogeneous digraphs (doubled letters) … Näytä lisää

The pair of letters making up a phoneme are not always adjacent. This is the case with English silent e. For example, the sequence a_e … Näytä lisää

In some languages, certain digraphs and trigraphs are counted as distinct letters in themselves, and assigned to a specific place in the Näytä lisää

Digraphs sometimes come to be written as a single ligature. Over time, the ligatures may evolve into new letters or letters with diacritics. For example sz became ß in German, and "nn" … Näytä lisää