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Bosnian Cyrillic, widely known as Bosančica, [1] [2] [3] is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet that originated in medieval Bosnia. [2] The term was coined at the end of the 19th century by Ćiro Truhelka .
Pronunciation and vocabulary differs among dialects spoken within Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia themselves. Each larger region has its own pronunciation and it is reasonably easy to guess where a speaker is from by their accent and/or vocabulary. Colloquial vocabulary can be particularly different from the official standards.
Gaj's Latin alphabet (Serbo-Croatian: Gajeva latinica / Гајева латиница, pronounced [ɡâːjěva latǐnitsa]), also known as abeceda (Serbian Cyrillic: абецеда, pronounced [abetsěːda]) or gajica (Serbian Cyrillic: гајица, pronounced), is the form of the Latin script used for writing Serbo-Croatian and all of its standard varieties: Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin ...
The "Bosnian" and "Croatian" versions are identical and the "Serbian" one is a Cyrilic transliteration of the exact same text. The name "Bosnian language" is a controversial issue for some Croats and Serbs, who also refer to it as the "Bosniak" language (Serbo-Croatian: bošnjački / бошњачки, [bǒʃɲaːtʃkiː]).
It is the fifth letter of the Wymysorys alphabet. In Slovene, it occurs only in names and surnames, mainly from Serbo-Croatian (e.g. Handanović), and denotes the same sound as Č, i.e. the voiceless palato-alveolar affricate. The Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet equivalent is Ћ (23rd letter). Macedonian uses Ќ as a partial equivalent (24th ...
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Dž (titlecase form; all-capitals form DŽ, lowercase dž) is the seventh letter of the Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian (Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian), after D and before Đ. It is pronounced . Dž is a digraph that corresponds to the letter Dzhe (Џ/џ) of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet.
In most spoken Croatian idioms, as well as in some Bosnian, they are postalveolar (/ʃ, ʒ, t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ/) instead, and there could be a complete or partial merger between /tʂ, dʐ/ and palatal affricates /tɕ, dʑ/. [13] where most Croatian and some Bosnian speakers merge the pairs č, ć /tʂ, tɕ/ and dž, đ /dʐ, dʑ/, into [t͡ʃ] and ...