Multigraph (orthography)
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst".Template:Template other A multigraph (or pleograph) is a sequence of letters that behaves as a unit and is not the sum of its parts, such as English Template:Angbr (typically pronouncedScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IPAc-en) or French Template:Angbr (Script error: No such module "IPA".). The term is infrequently used, as the number of letters is usually specified: Template:Ordered list
Combinations longer than tetragraphs are unusual. The German pentagraph Template:Angbr has largely been replaced by Template:Angbr, remaining only in proper names such as Template:Angbr or Template:Angbr. Except for doubled trigraphs like German Template:Angbr, hexagraphs are found only in Irish vowels, where the outside letters indicate whether the neighboring consonant is "broad" or "slender". However, these sequences are not predictable. The hexagraph Template:Angbr, for example, where the Template:Angbr and Template:Angbr mark the consonants as broad, represents the same sound (approximately the vowel in English write) as the trigraph Template:Angbr, and with the same effect on neighboring consonants.
The seven-letter German sequence Template:Angbr, used to transliterate Ukrainian Template:Angbr, as in Template:Angbr for Template:Angbr "borscht", is a sequence of a trigraph Template:Angbr and a tetragraph Template:Angbr rather than a heptagraph. Likewise, the Juu languages have been claimed to have a heptagraph Template:Angbr, but this is also a sequence, of Template:Angbr and Template:Angbr.
Beyond the Latin alphabet, Morse code uses hexagraphs for several punctuation marks, and the dollar sign Template:Angbr is a heptagraph, Template:Angbr. Longer sequences are considered ligatures, and are transcribed as such in the Latin alphabet.