South Slavic Latinic transliterations
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Latinic (known locally as Latinica) is the name of the alphabet used across the former Yugoslavia. The alphabet consists of 30 letters in the four languages previously known as Serbo-Croatian (Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian). Macedonian employs 31 Latinic characters.
In Slovenia, Croatia and the Muslim-Croat Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina, this alphabet is exclusively used. In the other regions where Cyrillic is in use, Latinica as in Croatia is used for transliteration.
The characters are:
- A a
- B b
- C c
- Č č
- Ć ć
- D d
- Dž dž
- Dz (Macedonian only)
- Đ đ (occasionally Dj)
- E e
- F f
- G g
- H h
- I i
- J j
- K k
- L l
- LJ lj
- M m
- N n
- NJ nj
- O o
- P p
- R r
- S s
- Š š
- T t
- U u
- V v
- Z z
- Ž ž
- Dz dz (Macedonian only)
[edit] Notes
- Of the 26 standard letters: Q; W; X; Y, are not used. They are only used in foreign names which have not become a part of the present languages.
- In Slovenian orthography, there are no digraphs, even though softeners such as Dj and Nj still produce the same single sound.
- Macedonian softeners Ć and Đ may respectively be written as Kj and Gj reflecting a Macedonian tendency to place heavier stress on the hard consonants.
- Serbian/Montenegrin and Macedonian are the only Cyrillic-based languages to deploy this type of Latinic alphabet. The other Cyrillic alphabet countries such as Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Bulgaria tend to use more English-speaker friendly transliterations such as "Y" instead of "J", and "SH" instead of "Š", and "TS" in place of "C".
