Letter A or a
Cornish name A or a
Letter B or b
Cornish name Be or be
Letter C or c
Cornish name Ce or ce
Letter D or d
Cornish name De or de
Letter E
Cornish name E or e
Letter F
Cornish name Ef or ef
Letter G
Cornish name Ge or ge
Letter H
Cornish name Ha or ha
Letter I
Cornish name I or i
When employing a font that does not distinguish between capital I and small L, the alternative capital form Î can be used
Letter J
Cornish name Je or je
Letter K
Cornish name Ke or ke
Letter L
Cornish name Èl or èl
Letter M
Cornish name Èm or èm
Letter N
Cornish name Èn or èn
Letter O
Cornish name O or o
Letter P
Cornish name Pe or pe
Letter Q
Cornish name Qwo or qwo
Letter R
Cornish name Èr or èr
Letter S
Cornish name Ès or ès
Letter T
Cornish name Te or te
Letter U
Cornish name Û or û (pronounced without an initial y-sound)
Letter V
Cornish name Ve or ve
Letter W
Cornish name We or we
Letter X
Cornish name Ex or ex
Letter Y
Cornish name Ye or ye
Letter Z
Cornish name Zèd zèd)
Apostrophe
Cornish name collverk f collverkys
Capital letter
Cornish name lytheren vrâs f lytherednow brâs
Circumflex accent
Cornish name aken grobm f akednow crobm
Diaeresis
Cornish name aken dhewboynt f akednow dewboynt
Grave accent
Cornish name aken dhieskynus f akednow dieskynus
Hyphen
Cornish name nos jùnya m nosow jùnya
Small letter
Cornish name lytheren vian f lytherednow bian
Words are arranged alphabetically according to the same principles as for English. Digraphs are not treated as separate letters of the alphabet, in contrast to Welsh. Thus, for example, dhyworth ‘from’ and them ‘theme’ will be found under the letters d and t respectively in an alphabetical list.
When spelling out aloud a word that contains a vowel carrying an accent (‘diacritical mark’), the name of the letter is said first, followed by the name of the relevant accent.
Although the Cornish for ‘letter of the alphabet’ is lytheren, a feminine noun, the names of the letters themselves are treated as masculine, so none of them mutate after an ‘the’. The letter names have no plural form. For multiples of a letter, when playing Scrabble® for example, we say ge dywweyth ‘two Gs’, èl terweyth ‘three Ls’.
For geminate consonants we use the adjective dobyl: e.g. ès dobyl ‘double S’. But speakers who pre-occlude geminate M and geminate N are more likely to spell out be èm and de èn aloud than say èm dobyl and èn dobyl. The name ve dobyl as an alternative to we is not recommended, as it can cause confusion in the case of geminate v in a word like covva 'hiding-place'.