SPELLING: DIGRAPHS

1. A diagraph is the combination of two letters reproducing a single phoneme. Catalan uses a whole set of them, whose phonological values are as follows:

DIGRAPH	PRONUNCIATION	CATALAN EXAMPLE	ENGLISH TRANSL.
<tx>	/tš/	cotxe	car
<ny>	/ñ/	any	year
<qu>	/k/	qui	who

2. The digraph <qu> perform /k/ only when followed by <e> or <i>; otherwise, <u> is pronounced, normally performed as /w/:

quatre	four
quan	when
quòrum	quorum
sequoia	sequoia

3. Look up also <-ig>, <tx>. See also Gemination.