The main difference between QWERTZ and QWERTY is that the positions of the Z and Y keys are switched (hence the nickname "kezboard" [citation needed]).This change was made for three major reasons: Z is a much more common letter than Y in German; the latter rarely appears outside words whose spellings reflect either their importation from a foreign language or the …

The Sorbian languages (Upper Sorbian: serbska rěč, Lower Sorbian: serbska rěc) are the Upper Sorbian language and Lower Sorbian language, two closely related and partially mutually intelligible languages spoken by the Sorbs, a West Slavic ethno-cultural minority in the Lusatia region of Eastern Germany. They are classified under the West Slavic branch of the Indo …

The Vietnamese alphabet (Vietnamese: chữ Quốc ngữ, lit. 'script of the National language') is the modern Latin writing script or writing system for Vietnamese.It uses the Latin script based on Romance languages originally developed by Portuguese missionary Francisco de Pina (1585 – 1625).. The Vietnamese alphabet contains 29 letters, including seven letters using four …

The Azerbaijani alphabet (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan əlifbası, آذربایجان الفباسی, Азəрбајҹан әлифбасы) has three versions which includes the Perso-Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets.. North Azerbaijani, the official language of Republic of Azerbaijan, is written in a modified Latin alphabet.This superseded previous versions based on Cyrillic and Arabic ...

Two characters in the block Phonetic Extensions block complete the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet: U+1D2B ᴫ CYRILLIC LETTER SMALL CAPITAL EL and U+1D78 ᵸ MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC EN. Unicode includes few precomposed accented Cyrillic letters; the others can be combined by adding U+0301 ("combining acute accent") after the accented vowel (e.g ...

The voiceless alveolar sibilant is a common consonant sound in vocal languages. It is the sound in English words such as sea and pass, and is represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet with s . It has a characteristic high-pitched, highly perceptible hissing sound. For this reason, it is often used to get someone's attention, using a call often written as sssst! or psssst!.

The Ukrainian alphabet (Ukrainian: абе́тка, áзбука or алфа́ві́т, romanized: abetka, azbuka or alfavit) is the set of letters used to write Ukrainian, which is the official language of Ukraine.It is one of several national variations of the Cyrillic script.It comes from the Cyrillic script, which was devised in the 9th century for the first Slavic literary language, called ...

Historical development. Church Slavonic represents a later stage of Old Church Slavonic, and is the continuation of the liturgical tradition introduced by two Thessalonian brothers, Saints Cyril and Methodius, in the late 9th century in Nitra, a principal town and religious and scholarly center of Great Moravia (located in present-day Slovakia).There the first Slavic translations of the ...

Lower Sorbian (dolnoserbšćina) is a West Slavic minority language spoken in eastern Germany in the historical province of Lower Lusatia, today part of Brandenburg.. Standard Lower Sorbian is one of the two literary Sorbian languages, the other being the more widely spoken standard [clarify] Upper Sorbian.The Lower Sorbian literary standard was developed in the 18th …

In Italian there is no phonemic distinction between long and short vowels, but vowels in stressed open syllables, unless word-final, are long at the end of the intonational phrase (including isolated words) or when emphasized. Adjacent identical vowels found at morpheme boundaries are not resyllabified, but pronounced separately ("quickly rearticulated"), and they might be reduced to …