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Dajnko alphabet

Former alphabet for the Slovene language

South Slavic languages and dialects

Western South Slavic

Serbo-Croatian

Standard languages
Bosnian
Croatian
Montenegrin
Serbian
(Slavonic-Serbian)

Dialects
Shtokavian
- (Younger Ikavian
  Bunjevac
- Slavonian
  Šokac
- Dubrovnik
- Eastern Herzegovinian
  Užice
- Zeta–Raška
- Kosovo–Resava (Smederevo–Vršac)
- Šumadija–Vojvodina
- Prizren–Timok (Prizren–South Morava
  Gorani
  Janjevo–Letnica
- Svrljig–Zaplanje
- Timok–Lužnica))
Chakavian
- (Burgenland
- Molise)
Kajkavian
Torlakian
- (Prizren–South Morava
  Gorani
  Janjevo–Letnica
- Svrljig–Zaplanje
- Timok–Lužnica)

Accents

Comparison of standard Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian

Slovene
Dialects
- (Prekmurje Slovene
- Resian)

Eastern South Slavic

Church Slavonic (Old)

Macedonian
Dialects
- (Western
- Southeastern
- Northern
- Torlakian)
Spoken Macedonian
Standard Macedonian

Transitional dialects

Serbian–Bulgarian–Macedonian
Transitional Bulgarian dialects
- Torlakian
- Gorani

Croatian–Slovenian
Kajkavian

Bulgarian–Macedonian
Slavic dialects of Greece

Alphabets

^a Includes Banat Bulgarian alphabet.

The Dajnko alphabet (Slovene: dajnčica) was a Slovene alphabet invented by Peter Dajnko. It was used from 1824 to 1839 mostly in Styria (in what is now eastern Slovenia).

History

Dajnko introduced his alphabet in 1824 in his book Lehrbuch der windischen Sprache (Slovene Textbook).^[1] He decided to replace the older Bohorič alphabet with his own new writing system because of the problems with the writing of sibilants.^[2] In 1825, Franc Serafin Metelko came up with a similar proposal, complicating the issue. The Dajnko alphabet, which was introduced to schools in 1831, was fiercely opposed by Anton Murko and Anton Martin Slomšek.^[3] After 1834 it gradually came out of use with the adoption of a slightly modified version of Gaj's Latin alphabet as the new Slovene script and was in 1839 officially abolished.^[4]

Letters

He represented the phonemes /ts/, /s/, /z/ with the letters C, S, Z (as in the modern Slovene alphabet) and the phonemes /tʃ/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/ with special characters (see table below). In addition, he invented two extra symbols, which were omitted after 1829 (see table below):

Dajnčica
Upper case	Lower case	IPA	Modern Slovene
C	c	/t͡s/	c
Ч	ɥ	/t͡ʃ/	č
S	s	/s/	s
Ȣ	ȣ	/ʃ/	š
Z	z	/z/	z
X	x	/ʒ/	ž
Ŋ	ŋ	/n̪ʲ/	nj
Y	y	/y/	ü (in eastern dialects only)

Dajnko's alphabetical order was as follows:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N Ŋ O P R S Ȣ Z X T U Y V Ч

The IETF language tags have assigned the variant sl-dajnko to Slovene in the Dajnko alphabet.^[5]

References

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^ "Dajnkova slovnica" [The Grammar of Dajnko]. Kamra (in Slovenian). 8 October 2012. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
^ Prilasnig, Fabian (2011). "Dajnčica". Die Entwicklung des slawischen Schrifttums [The Development of the Slavic Literatures] (in German). GRIN Verlag. p. 17. ISBN 9783656051015.
^ Mugerli, Anja. "Dajnčica". In Ahačič, Kozma (ed.). Slovenski črkopisi [Slovene Alphabets] (PDF) (in Slovenian). pp. 26–28.
^ Prilasnig, Fabian (2011). "Dajnčica". Die Entwicklung des slawischen Schrifttums (in German). GRIN Verlag. p. 17. ISBN 9783656051015.
^ "IETF language subtag registry". IANA. 2021-08-06. Retrieved 10 September 2021.