Abakada is the twenty-letter Philippine alphabet.
The name Abakada is the pronunciation of the call leters of the first four a,b, k, d pronounced a ba ka da (ah-bah-kah-dah would be a close approximation of the sound if coming from an American English speaker). The third letter of this alphabet is the letter k.
The abakada consists of the vowels a, e, i, o, u and the consonants p, t, k, d, g, h, l, r, m, n, s, w, y and the digraph ng.
The "foreign" letters c, f, j, q, v, x and z were not declared part of the Pilipino alphabet until 1971.