International Phonetic AlphabetSystem of phonetic notationThe International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association, starting in the late 19th century, as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech.
DiacriticModifier mark added to a letterLatin letter A with multiple diacriticsA diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greekδιακριτικός (diakritikós, "distinguishing"), from διακρίνω (diakrínō, "to distinguish"). The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used in an attributive sense, whereas diacritical is only an adjective.
Ch (digraph)Ch is a digraph in the Latin script. It is treated as a letter of its own in the Chamorro, Old Spanish, Czech, Slovak, Igbo, Uzbek, Quechua, Ladin, Guarani, Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Ukrainian Latynka, and Belarusian Łacinka alphabets.
Bosnian languageStandard variety of Serbo-Croatian Bosnianbosanski / босанскиbosanski jezik / босански језикPronunciation[bɔ̌sanskiː]Native toBosnia and HerzegovinaSerbiaMontenegroCroatiaNorth MacedoniaKosovoRegionBosnia and surrounding areasEthnicityBosniaksNative speakers3.1 million (2020–2023)Language familyIndo-European Balto-SlavicSlavicSouth SlavicWesternSerbo-CroatianBosnianEarly formsProto-Indo-European Proto-Balto-Slavic Proto-Slavic Proto-Serbo-Croatian Shtokavian Eastern Herzegovinian Writing systemLatin (Gaj's Latin alphabet)Cyrillic (Serbian Cyrillic alphabet)Yugoslav BrailleFormerly:Arabic (Arebica)Bosnian Cyrillic (Bosančica)Official statusOfficial language in Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro (co-official)Recognised minoritylanguage in Serbia Croatia North Macedonia KosovoLanguage codesISO 639-1bsISO 639-2bosISO 639-3bosGlottologbosn1245Linguaspherepart of 53-AAA-gCountries where Bosnian is a co-official language (dark green) or a recognised minority language (light green)Bosnian is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.This article contains IPA phonetic symbols.
Latin-script alphabetA Latin-script alphabet (Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet) is an alphabet that uses letters of the Latin script. The 21-letter archaic Latin alphabet and the 23-letter classical Latin alphabet belong to the oldest of this group. The 26-letter modern Latin alphabet is the newest of this group. EncodingThe 26-letter ISO basic Latin alphabet (adopted from the earlier ASCII) contains the 26 letters of the English alphabet.CircumflexThe circumflex (◌̂) is a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is also used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from Latin: circumflexus "bent around"—a translation of the Ancient Greek: περισπωμένη (perispōménē).
AlphabetAn alphabet is a writing system that uses a standard set of symbols called graphemes – more commonly known as letters – to more or less represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, these graphemes largely correspond to phonemes, which are the smallest sound segments that can distinguish one word from another in a given language.
Irish orthographySpelling and punctuation of the Irish languageIrish orthography is the set of conventions used to write the Irish language. A spelling reform in the mid-20th century led to An Caighdeán Oifigiúil, the modern standardwritten form used by the Government of Ireland, which regulates both spelling and grammar.
Serbian languageStandard variety of Serbo-CroatianOrthographyAn orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, punctuation, word boundaries, capitalization, hyphenation, and emphasis. Most national and international languages have an established writing system that has undergone substantial standardization, thus exhibiting less dialect variation than the spoken language.
Gaj's Latin alphabetGaj's Latin alphabet is the form of the Latin script used for writing all four standard varieties of Serbo-Croatian: Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian. It contains 30 letters: 22 letters of basic Latin alphabet (excluding Q, W, X, Y), 5 letters with diacritics (Č, Ć, Đ, Š, Ž) and 3 digraphs (Dž, Lj, Nj). Each letter (including digraphs) represents one Serbo-Croatian phoneme, yielding a highly phonemic orthography.
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