Abjad (문자) - Konsonan (자음) 2

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By now, you already learned 5 vocal letters, 11 consonant letters, and how to combine vocal and consonant to make syllables. Let's learn the remaining 10 consonants in Indonesian.

More Consonants

Some consonants have similar sounds to ones we have learned before. Even native Indonesian may confuse these letters when listening to others.

자음	이름	sound	similar to
p	pé (뻬)	빠	b (바)
t	té (떼)	따	d (다)
k	ka (까)	까	g (가)
c	cé (쩨)	짜	j (자)
l	él (엘)	을라	r (라)

영습

자음	쓰는 순서	영습
p
t
k
c
l

Foreign Loan Letters

Lastly, there are also consonants which are used for words derived from foreign languages. Therefore, these consonants are not so commonly used in Indonesian.

자음	이름	sound
f	éf (에프)	파
q	qi (끼)	까
v	vé (페)	파
x	éks (엑스)	사
z	zét (젲)	자

영습

자음	쓰는 순서	영습
f
q
v
x
z

Alphabet Order

When looking up Indonesian words in dictionary or sorting names, all the 26 letters are sorted in the following order:

a b c d e f g h i j 
k l m n o p q r s t 
u v w x y z

By the way, did you know that there's a song to remember the alphabet? It's adapted from the English ABC song, and is often sung in Indonesian kindergarten.

Here's the lyric...

a bé cé dé é éf gé
아 베 쩨 데 에 에프 게
ha i jé ka él ém én o pé
하 이 제 까 옐 엠 엔 오 뻬
qi ér és té u
끼 에르 에스 떼 우
vé wé éks yé zét
페 왜 엑스 예 젲
mari kita bersama belajar mengéja
마리 끼따 브르사마 블라자르 믕에자

Translation

a b c d e f g
h i j k l m n o p
q r s t u
v w x y z
우리는 같이 절자를 공부해요

Congratulations! You have just mastered all the letters in Indonesian. In the next article we will learn more about syllables.