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Czech orthography is a system of rules for proper formal writing (orthography) in Czech.The earliest form of separate Latin script specifically designed to suit Czech was devised by Czech theologian and church reformist Jan Hus, the namesake of the Hussite movement, in one of his seminal works, De orthographia bohemica (On Bohemian orthography).
Consonants; IPA Examples Nearest English equivalent b: být, bzukot: beat: c: lať, těšit, ticho, loď, loďka : stew (UK) : d: délka, odběr, modlitba : delta: f ...
The symbol originates with the 15th-century Czech alphabet that was introduced by the reforms of Jan Hus. [1] [2] From there, it was first adopted into the Croatian alphabet by Ljudevit Gaj in 1830 to represent the same sound, [3] and from there on into other orthographies, such as Latvian, [4] Lithuanian, [5] Slovak, [6] Slovene, Karelian, Sami, Veps and Sorbian.
The institute's rich publishing activity has two main branches, firstly scientific monographies, magazines (Naše řeč, Slovo a slovesnost) and articles, that could be viewed as conversation between bohemists themselves, discussing matters of the Czech language. Secondly, what could be considered output of these discussions, is a consistent ...
In the old alphabet used by most distinguished writers, the Bohorič alphabet (bohoričica), developed by Adam Bohorič, the characters č, š and ž would be spelt as zh, ſh and sh respectively, and c, s and z would be spelt as z, ſ and s respectively.
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ie , which stands for the rising-opening diphthong , similar to the / j ɛ / sequence in English (as in yes / j ɛ s /); iu , which stands for the rising-backing diphthong , similar to the / j uː / sequence in English (as in use / j uː z /) (but with a short ending point), never as a falling-backing diphthong as in some Welsh English new [nɪu].