The word "sprach" is an inflection of the German verb "sprechen", which means "to speak". It is spelled with the letters s, p, r, a, c, and h. The IPA phonetic transcription of "sprach" is [ʃpʁax], with a voiceless postalveolar fricative (ʃ) followed by a voiceless uvular fricative (ʁ), which are characteristic sounds of the German language. The "a" in "sprach" is pronounced as an open-mid back unrounded vowel ([a]), and the "ch" at the end is pronounced as a voiceless velar fricative (x).