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Encyclopedia > Kashubian alphabet

The Kashubian alphabet is the script of the Kashubian language. It was created in 1879 by Florian Ceynowa and is partially based on the Polish alphabet.However, this alphabet was never adopted in the Kashubian region of Canada, because the Kashub immigrants arrived in the settlement of Wilno, Ontario 20 years before it was invented, and Kashub Canadians can only speak Kashubian. The Kashubian alphabet consists of 34 letters: Kashubian or Cassubian (Kashubian: kaszëbsczi jãzëk, pòmòrsczi jãzëk, kaszëbskò-słowińskô mòwa) is one of the Lechitic languages, which are a group of Slavic languages. ... Year 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Florian Ceynowa (died in 1880) was the pioneer of the nationalist movement among the Kashubian people in the mid-19th century. ... The Polish alphabet is the script of the Polish language. ... The village of Wilno, Ontario in Renfrew County, Ontario, is the oldest Polish settlement in Canada. ...

A, Ą, Ã, B, C, D, E, É, Ë, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, Ł, M, N, Ń, O, Ò, Ó, Ô, P, R, S, T, U, Ù, W, Y, Z, Ż

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Pronounciation

Kaszëbsczé abecadło

Upper case Lower case Kashubian name Pronunciation
A a [ɐ]
Ą ą "A with ogonek" [ɔ̃]
à ã a z blewiązką "A with tilde" [ã]

[ɛ̃] (Puck and northern Wejherowo county) Kashubian is: one of the Kashubians the Kashubian language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... For other uses of A, see A (disambiguation). ... It has been suggested that Ę be merged into this article or section. ... For other uses of A, see A (disambiguation). ... For the baseball player known as the Big Tilde, see Magglio Ordóñez. ...

B b [b]
C c [ʦ]
D d [d]
E e [ɛ]
É é "E with acute" [e])

[ej] in some dialects For other uses, see E (disambiguation). ... The acute accent (   ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin and Greek scripts. ...


[i]/[ɨ] (area between Puck and Kartuzy)

Ë ë szwa "E with diaeresis" [ə]
F f [f]
G g [g]
H h [x]
I i [ɪ-i]
J j [j]
K k [k]
L l [l]
Ł ł "L with stroke" [w]
M m [m]
N n [n]
Ń ń "N with acute" [ɲ]
O o [ɔ]
Ò ò labializacja "O with grave" [wɛ]
Ó ó "O with acute" [o]

[u] (southern dialects) For other uses, see E (disambiguation). ... In linguistics, a, diaeresis, or dieresis (AE) (from Greek (diaerein), to divide) is the modification of a syllable by distinctly pronouncing one of its vowels. ... Łł Ł or Å‚, described in English as L with stroke, is a letter of the Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian, Łacinka (Latin Belarusian), and Navajo alphabets. ... For other uses of N, see N (disambiguation). ... The acute accent (   ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin and Greek scripts. ... Look up O, o in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The grave accent ( ` ) is a diacritic mark used in written Greek until 1982 (polytonic orthography), French, Catalan, Welsh, Italian, Vietnamese, Scottish Gaelic, Norwegian, Portuguese and other languages. ... Look up O, o in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The acute accent (   ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin and Greek scripts. ...

Ô ô o z dakã "O with circumflex" [ɞ]

[ɛ] (western dialects) Look up O, o in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The circumflex ( ˆ ) (often called a caret, a hat or an uppen) is a diacritic mark used in written Greek, French, Dutch, Esperanto, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Vietnamese, Japanese romaji, Welsh, Portuguese, Italian, Afrikaans and other languages, and formerly in Turkish [citation needed]. It received its English name from Latin circumflexus (bent...


[ɔ] (Wejherowo county)


[o]/[u] (southern dialects)

P p [p]
R r [r]
S s [s]
T t [ʊ-u]
U u [ʊ-u]
Ù ù "U with grave" [wu]
W w [v]
Y y [ɪ-i]
Z z [z]
Ż ż "Z with dot above" [ʐ]

For other uses of U, see U (disambiguation). ... The grave accent ( ` ) is a diacritic mark used in written Greek until 1982 (polytonic orthography), French, Catalan, Welsh, Italian, Vietnamese, Scottish Gaelic, Norwegian, Portuguese and other languages. ... Look up Z, z in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot is usually reserved for the middle dot ·, or to the glyphs combining dot above ̇ and combining dot below ̣ which may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in use in Eastern European languages and Vietnamese. ...

Consonants Combination

Upper case Lower case Kashubian name Pronunciation
Ch ch [x]
Cz cz [ʧ]
Dz dz [ã]

[dz] Kashubian is: one of the Kashubians the Kashubian language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Rz rz [ʒ]
Sz sz [ʃ]

See also

Kashubian or Cassubian (Kashubian: kaszëbsczi jãzëk, pòmòrsczi jãzëk, kaszëbskò-słowińskô mòwa) is one of the Lechitic languages, which are a group of Slavic languages. ... Polish (język polski, polszczyzna) is the official language of Poland. ...

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