Sorbian alphabet
| Sorbian alphabet | ||
|---|---|---|
| Font | alphabet | |
| languages | Lower and Upper Sorbian | |
| Used in | Lausitz | |
| Officially in | Sorbian settlement area | |
| ancestry |
Phoenician script → Greek alphabet → Etruscan script → Latin alphabet → Sorbian alphabet |
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| relative |
Polish alphabet Czech alphabet |
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| Unicode block |
Basic Latin (U + 0000 – U + 007F) Latin, extended-A (U + 0100 – U + 017F) |
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| ISO 15924 | Latn | |
The Sorbian alphabet contains the letters for the written representation of the Sorbian languages and dialects . It is based on the Latin alphabet (with the exception of Q, V and X) and also contains letters with diacritical marks such as the acute and the hatschek . The Sorbian alphabet contains all letters that appear in at least one of the two standard languages ( Upper Sorbian , Lower Sorbian ).
In the ISO 8859 family of standards, ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2) is provided for the Sorbian alphabet . Of course, all required characters are included in Unicode .
| Capital letter |
HTML code |
Small letter |
Surname | HTML code |
Usual phonetic transcription |
Alternative phonetic transcription |
Comments |
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| A. | a | a | [ a ] | ||||
| B. | b | bej | [ b ] | [ p ] | |||
| C. | c | cej | [ ts ] | ||||
| Č | & # 268; | č | čej | & # 269; | [ tʃ ] | ||
| Ć | & # 262; | ć | ćet | & # 263; | [ tɕ ] | ||
| D. | d | dej | [ d ] | [ t ] | |||
| Dź | D & # 378; | dź | Dźej | [ dʑ ] | [ tɕ ] | ||
| E. | e | ej | [ ɛ ] | ||||
| Ě | & # 282; | ě | (each) | & # 283; | [ iɪ ] | ||
| F. | f | ef | [ f ] | ||||
| G | G | gej | [ g ] | ||||
| Ch | ch | cha | Lower Sorb. [ x ] or [ ç ] , Obersorb. [ x ] or [ K ] 1 | ||||
| H | H | Ha | Obers. [ h ] Nieders. [ h ] or mute |
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| I. | i | i | [ i ] | ||||
| J | j | jot | [ j ] | ||||
| K | k | ka | [ k ] | ||||
| Ł | & # 321; | ł | eł | & # 322; | [ w ] or mute | ||
| L. | l | el | [ l ] | ||||
| M. | m | em | [ m ] | ||||
| N | n | en | [ n ] or [ ŋ ] | ||||
| Ń | & # 323; | ń | & # 324; | [ ɲ ] | |||
| O | O | O | [ ɔ ] | ||||
| O | O | O | Obers. [ uʊ ] Nieders. [ ɛ ] or [ ɨ ] |
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| P | p | pej | [ p ] | ||||
| R. | r | (he | [ r ] | ||||
| Ř | & # 344; | ř | (he | & # 345; | [ ʃ ] | only Upper Sorbian | |
| Ŕ | & # 340; | ŕ | (he | & # 341; | [ rʲ ] | Lower Sorbian only; formerly also Upper Sorbian |
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| S. | s | it | [ s ] | [ for ] , [ ɕ ] | |||
| Š | & # 352; | š | it | & # 353; | [ ʃ ] | ||
| Ś | & # 346; | ś | & # 347; | [ ɕ ] | [ ʑ ] | Lower Sorbian only | |
| T | t | tej | [ t ] | [ d ] | |||
| U | u | u | [ u ] | ||||
| W. | w | wej | [ w ] or mute | ||||
| Y | y | [ ɨ ] | not at the beginning of the word | ||||
| Z | z | zet | [ z ] | [ s ] , [ ʑ ] | |||
| Ž | & # 381; | ž | žet | & # 382; | [ ʒ ] | ||
| Ź | & # 377; | ź | & # 378; | [ ʑ ] | Lower Sorb only. |
- 1 At the beginning of a base morpheme before a vowel, such as B. in za ch od, při ch od; ch odźić, ch ory.
Digraphs
The Sorbian orthography also includes the two digraphs ch and dź, which are classified as separate letters and have their own names. Therefore, as in Sorbian dictionaries, they are listed above as equivalent.
In alphabetical order, the digraph ch follows the h and dź the d .
swell
- Jana Šołćina, Edward Wornar : Upper Sorbian in self-study. Hornjoserbšćina za samostudij , Bautzen 2000, ISBN 3-7420-1779-9 , pages 12-15
- Manfred Starosta: Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik, Lower Sorbian-German Dictionary , Bautzen 1999, ISBN 3-7420-1096-4 , pages 15-21
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jurij Kral : Serbsko-němski słownik hornjołužiskeje rěče , Budyšin 1931 ( digitized version of the SLUB Dresden ).