Dajnko alphabet or dajnčica was a slovenian writing system invented by Peter Dajnko. It was used in years 1824 - 1839 - mostly in eastern Slovenia (Styria). Peter Dajnko was a slovenian priest, writer and linguist. ... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1839 (MDCCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... “Styria” redirects here. ...

A song in dajnčica, by P. Dajnko

Dajnko introduced his alphabet in 1824 in the book Lehrbuch der windischen Sprache = Book for learning slovene language (written in german). He decided to replace older Bohorič alphabet with his own new writing system. He decided to write phonemes /ts/, /s/, /z/ with letters C, S, Z (equally as in modern slovenian alphabet) and phonemes /tʃ/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/ with special letters (see table bellow). Besides he invented two extra symbols, which were omited after 1829 (see table bellow): 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Bohorič alphabet (slovene bohoričica) was slovene writing system used in years 1550-1850. ... |The Slovenian alphabet is an extension of the Latin alphabet and is used in the Slovene language. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

Dajnčica

majuscule	minuscule	IPA	modern slovene
C	c	/ts/	c
		/tʃ/	č
S	s	/s/	s
	or	/ʃ/	š
Z	z	/z/	z
X	x	/ʒ/	ž
		/nj/ or /ɲ/	nj
Y	y	/y/	ü (in eastern dialects only)

The alpabetical order according to Dajnko is as follows:

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

Dajnko alphabet was no longer in use after 1839. Soon after that Slovenes began using Gaj's alphabet imported from croatian language. 1839 (MDCCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The Latin alphabet used by the Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian and Serbo-Croat languages was devised by Ljudevit Gaj, in his book 1830 Kratka osnova horvatsko-slavenskog pravopisanja (A short primer of Croatian-Slavonic orthography) (Note that there is an ongoing debate as to whether some or all of these...

External links

• Dajnčica, text sample

References

Enciklopedija Slovenije, 2. zvezek, članek Dajnčica. Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana, 1988.