(Listen to a Danish speaker recite the alphabet in Danish.) The letters C, Q, W, X and Z are not used in the spelling of indigenous words. They are rarely used in Norwegian, where loan words routinely have their orthography adapted to the native sound system. Conversely, Danish has a greater tendency to preserve loan words' original spellings.

The International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the NATO phonetic alphabet, NATO spelling alphabet, ICAO phonetic alphabet or ICAO spelling alphabet, is the most widely used radiotelephone spelling alphabet.The ITU phonetic alphabet and figure code is a rarely used variant that differs in the code words for digits.. To create the code, a series of …