In the Latin script, pentagraphs are found primarily in Irish orthography. There is one archaic pentagraph in German orthography, which is found in the English word Nietzschean.
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Irish
Used between a velarized ("broad") and a platalized ("slender") consonant:
To write the sound /əu̯/ (in Donegal, /oː/):
⟨abhai⟩, ⟨amhai⟩, ⟨obhai⟩, ⟨odhai⟩, and ⟨oghai⟩To write the sound /əi̯/ (in Donegal, /eː/):
⟨adhai⟩, ⟨aghai⟩To write the sound /əi̯/:
⟨oidhi⟩ and ⟨oighi⟩To write the sound /oː/:
⟨omhai⟩Used between a slender and a broad consonant:
To write the sound /əu̯/ (in Donegal, /oː/):
⟨eabha⟩ and ⟨eamha⟩To write the sound /əi̯/ (in Donegal, /eː/):
⟨eadha⟩Used between two slender consonants:
To write the sound /əi̯/: ⟨eidhi⟩ and ⟨eighi⟩Dutch
⟨sjtsj⟩ is used as the transcription of the Cyrillic letter Щ, representing the consonant /ɕː/ in Russian, for example in the name Chroesjtsjov.
French
⟨chtch⟩ is used as the transcription of the Cyrillic letter Щ, representing the consonant /ɕː/ in Russian, for example in the name Khrouchtchev.
German
⟨tzsch⟩ was once used in German to write the sound /tʃ/. It has largely been replaced by the tetragraph ⟨tsch⟩, but is still found in proper names such as Nietzsche.