Sorbian alphabet



         


The Sorbian alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet but uses diacritics such as the acute accent and the hacek. The standard character encoding for the Sorbian alphabet is ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2).

The alphabet is used for Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian.


Upper
case
HTML
code
Lower
case
HTML
code
Usual
phonetic value
A   a   [a]  
B   b   [b] [p]
C   c   [ʦ / ts]
Č Č č č
Ć Ć ć ć [tɕ / ts\]
D   d   [d] [t]
E   e   [ε / E]  
E   e   [ε / E]  
F   f   [f]
G   g   [g]
H   h   [x]
I   i   [i]
J   j   [ȋ / i_^] or [j]
K   k   [k]
L   l   [l]
Ł Ł ł ł [ȗ / u_^] or [w]
M   m   [m]
N   n   [n]
Ń Ń ń ń [ɲ / J]
O   o   [ɔ / O]
P   p   [p]
R   r   [r]
R   r  
S   s   [s] [z], [ɕ / s\]
Š Š š š
Ś Ś ś ś [ɕ / s\] [ʑ / z\]
T   t   [t] [d]
U   u   [u] [ȗ / u_^]
W   w   [v] [f]
Y   y   [i / 1]  
Z   z   [z] [s], [ʑ / z\]
Ž &amp#381; ž &amp#382;


Sorbian orthography also includes two digraphs:


Upper
case
HTML
code
Lower
case
HTML
code
Usual
phonetic value
Other
phonetic values
Ch   ch   [x] [γ / G]
DŹ dź [dʑ / dz\] [tɕ / ts\]






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