Sorbian alphabet
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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, although some letters are used in only one of the two languages.
| Upper case | HTML code | Lower case | HTML code | Usual phonetic value | Other phonetic values | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | a | [a] | ||||
| B | b | [b] | [p] | |||
| C | c | [ts] | ||||
| Č | Č | č | č | |||
| Ć | Ć | ć | ć | |||
| D | d | [d] | [t] | |||
| E | e | [ε] | ||||
| Ě | &282; | ě | &283; | |||
| F | f | [f] | ||||
| G | g | [g] | ||||
| H | h | Upper [h] Lower [h] or silent | ||||
| I | i | [i] | ||||
| J | j | [j] | ||||
| K | k | [k] | ||||
| Ł | Ł | ł | ł | [w] | ||
| L | l | [l] | ||||
| M | m | [m] | ||||
| N | n | [n] | ||||
| Ń | Ń | ń | ń | |||
| O | o | ɔ]}} | ||||
| Ó | ó | Upper Lower [ε] or [ | ||||
| P | p | [p] | ||||
| R | r | [r] | ||||
| Ř | Ř | ř | ř | Upper Sorbian only | ||
| Ŕ | Ŕ | ŕ | ŕ | [rj] | Lower Sorbian only | |
| S | s | [s] | [z], | |||
| Š | Š | š | š | |||
| Ś | Ś | ś | ś | Lower Sorbian only | ||
| T | t | [t] | [d] | |||
| U | u | [u] | ||||
| W | w | Upper [v] Lower [w] or silent | Upper Sorbian [f] | |||
| Y | y | [ | ||||
| Z | z | [z] | [s], | |||
| Ž | Ž | ž | ž | |||
| Ź | Ź | ź | ź | Lower Sorbian only (except as part of digraph dź) |
Sorbian orthography also includes two digraphs:
| Upper case | HTML code | Lower case | HTML code | Usual phonetic value | Other phonetic values |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ch | ch | [x] | |||
| Dź | Dź | dź | dź |
The digraph ch follows h in alphabetical order. In Upper Sorbian, ć follows t in alphabetical order.