The Scottish Gaelic alphabet contains 18 letters, five of which are vowels. The letters are (Vowels in bold): Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig; IPA: ) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. ... Look up Letter on Wiktionary, the free dictionary A letter is a written message from one party to another. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-07-18, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ...

a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u

The five vowels also appear with grave accents, the absence or presence of which can change the meaning of a word drastically as in bàta (a boat) versus bata (a stick): The grave accent ( ` ) is a diacritic mark used in written Greek until 1982 (polytonic orthography), French, Catalan, Welsh, Italian, Vietnamese, Scottish Gaelic, Norwegian, Portuguese and other languages. ...

à, è, ì, ò, ù

Until recently, the acute accent was also used in some words, but was abolished. This is in contrast to Irish Gaelic which only uses the acute. The acute accent ( Â´ ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin script. ...

It is also increasingly common to see other Latin letters in loanwords, including v & z etc.

The alphabet is known as the aibidil in Scottish Gaelic, and formerly the Beith Luis Nuin from the old Ogham letter order, b,l,n etc. Ogham (Old Irish Ogam) was an alphabet used primarily to represent Gaelic languages. ...

Old names of letters (not in current use)

The old names of the letters were based upon the names of trees, but sometimes differ slightly from modern forms e.g. dair = darach, suil = seileach.

• A - ailm (elm)
• B - beith (birch)
• C - coll (hazel)
• D - dair (oak)
• E - eadha (ivy)
• F - feàrn (alder)
• G - gort ()
• H - uath (hawthorn)
• I - iogh ()
• L - luis (rowan)
• M - muin ()
• N - nuin (ash)
• O - onn (gorse)
• P - peith, also beith bhog (soft "b")
• R - ruis (elder)
• S - suil (willow)
• T - teine (whin, broom)
• U - ur (yew)

Another obsolete naming system was similar to many European ones, e.g. b would be 'beh', c would be 'ec' etc.