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 caron. The standard character encoding for the Sorbian alphabet is ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2).

The alphabet is used for the Sorbian languages, although some letters are used in only one of the two languages (Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian).

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	[tʃ]
Ć	Ć	ć	ć	[tɕ]
D		d		[d]	[t]
E		e		[ɛ]
Ě	Ě	ě	ě	[iɪ]
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	[ɲ]
O		o		[ɔ]
Ó	Ó	ó	ó	Upper [uʊ] Lower [ɛ] or [ɨ]
P		p		[p]
R		r		[r]
Ř	Ř	ř	ř	[ʃ]		Upper Sorbian only
Ŕ	Ŕ	ŕ	ŕ	[rʲ]		Lower Sorbian only
S		s		[s]	[z], [ɕ]
Š	Š	š	š	[ʃ]
Ś	Ś	ś	ś	[ɕ]	[ʑ]	Lower Sorbian only
T		t		[t]	[d]
U		u		[u]
W		w		Upper [v] Lower [w] or silent	Upper Sorbian [f]
Y		y		[ɨ]
Z		z		[z]	[s], [ʑ]
Ž	Ž	ž	ž	[ʒ]
Ź	Ź	ź	ź	[ʑ]		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		Upper [kʰ] Lower [x]
Dź	Dź	dź	dź	[dʑ]	[tɕ]

The digraph ch follows h in alphabetical order.