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Why cx, sx, zx instead of č, š, ž? That’s a step backwards. Slavic languages have perfectly fine letters for those phonemes.
by zagrebian 5y ago
Why cx, sx, zx instead of č, š, ž? That’s a step backwards. Slavic languages have perfectly fine letters for those phonemes.
- ajuc 5y agoThe goal was to use only basic latin letters. But even then - many Slavic languages use or used z for this purpose, none uses x. So why make it arfitically less understandeable? It's not Cxechia it's Czechia.
- singularity2001 5y agowhy not sh, ch and zh then?
- ajuc 5y agoSlavs don't use these AFAIK but that would also be preferable to sx etc.
- political12345 5y agoBulgarians use those when transliterating bulgarian in thr latin alphabet
- smcl 5y agoIn some slavic languages "sh" and "ch" already exist. In fact in Czech "ch" is considered a single letter
- snidane 5y agoHistorical baggage. The 'c' doesn't contribute to the sound of the czech 'ch' (russian 'x'), unless you read the 'c' as an english 'k'. Kh as in Kharkiv makes more sense.
- mongrelion 5y agoTIL that this is called Gaj's Latin alphabet [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaj's_Latin_alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaj's_Latin_alphabet
- Tenoke 5y agoIsn't that like only 2-3 out of all Slavic languages and not the biggest ones? Also, it would just make it harder to type on current layouts.
- zagrebian 5y agoTrue. I don’t know much about other Slavic alphabets (other than my own, Serbo-Croatian). It looks like Polish has ć, ś, ź for this purpose. I’d be interested to learn more about the alphabets in Cyrillic. I assume they also have special letters for these three phonemes.
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