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In IPA transcriptions of Slovak, [tʂ, dʐ, ʂ, ʐ] are often written with tʃ, dʒ, ʃ, ʒ , i.e. as if they were palato-alveolar. The palato-alveolar [tʃ, dʒ, ʃ, ʒ] exist in Slovak, but only as allophones of /tʂ, dʐ, ʂ, ʐ/, which are normally retroflex, as in Polish. The following digraphs are not considered to be a part of the Slovak ...
The phonetic quality of Slovak diphthongs is as follows: /ɪe/ and /ɪu/ have the same starting point, the same as the short /i/ . The former glides to the short /e/ ( [ɪ̟e̞] ), whereas the latter glides to the position more front than /u/ ( [ɪ̟ʊ] ), so that /ɪu/ ends more front than the starting point of /ʊɔ/ .
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.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Slovak on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Slovak in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Slovak is closely related to Czech, to the point of very high mutual intelligibility, [18] as well as Polish. [19] Like other Slavic languages, Slovak is a fusional language with a complex system of morphology and relatively flexible word order. Its vocabulary has been extensively influenced by Latin [20] and German, [21] as well as other ...
Ŕ (minuscule: ŕ) is a letter of the Lower Sorbian and Slovak alphabets, Ukrainian Latin alphabet and Proto-Turkic orthography. It is formed from R with the addition of an acute. Their Unicode codepoints are U+0154 Ŕ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH ACUTE (Ŕ) and U+0155 ŕ LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH ACUTE (ŕ). The PostScript names are ...
In the languages now spoken in the places where Glagolitic script was once used, [20] [21] the script is known as глаголица (romanized as glagolitsa or glagolica, depending on which language) in Bulgarian, Macedonian and Russian; glagoljica (глагољица) in Croatian and Serbian; глаголиця (hlaholytsia) in Ukrainian ...
Dž in two different fonts. 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.