User:BalkanFever/Polish Cyrillic Alphabet

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Created a Polish Cyrillic Alphabet using my knowledge of the Cyrillic alphabet and Polish phonology. Slightly based on Polonised versions of various Cyrillic alphabets here→ [1]. Some Cyrillic characters have been used to represent different sounds than which they represent in other alphabets (see below).

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А а Б б В в Г г Д д Е e Ѧ ѧ Ж ж Ӂ ӂ З з Ѕ ѕ І і И и Ј ј К к Љ љ Л л М м Н н Њ њ О o Ѫ ѫ П п Р р С с Т т У у Ф ф Х х Ц ц Ч ч Ћ ћ Џ џ Ђ ђ Ш ш Щ щ

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NB: This is not a transliteration/Cyrillization system for Polish.

Polish Cyrillic to Polish Latin Polish Latin to Polish Cyrillic
Cyrillic Letter Polish Latin Equivalent Phoneme
А а A a /a/
Б б B b /b/
В в W w /v/
Г г G g - G(i) g(i) /g/ - /ɟ/
Д д D d /d/
Е e E e /ɛ/
Ѧ ѧ Ę ę /ɛ̃/
Ж ж Ż ż, Rz rz /ʐ/
Ӂ ӂ Ź ź / Z(i) z(i) /ʑ/
З з Z z /z/
Ѕ ѕ Dz dz /dz/
І і I i /i/
И и Y y /ɨ/
Ј ј J j /j/
К к K k - K(i) k(i) /k/ - /c/
Љ љ L l - L(i) l(i) /l/ - /ʎ/
Л л Ł ł /w/, /ɫ/
М м M m /m/
Н н N n /n/
Њ њ Ń ń / N(i) n(i) /ɲ/
О o O o /ɔ/
Ѫ ѫ Ą ą /ɔ̃/
П п P p /p/
Р р R r /r/
С с S s /s/
Т т T t /t/
У у U u, Ó ó /u/
Ф ф F f /f/
Х х H h, Ch ch /ç/, /x/
Ц ц C c /ʦ/
Ч ч Cz cz t͡ʂ/
Ћ ћ Ć ć / C(i) c(i) /ʨ/
Џ џ Dż dż /d͡ʐ/
Ђ ђ Dź dź / Dz(i) dz(i) /ʥ/
Ш ш Sz sz /ʂ/
Щ щ Ś ś / S(i) s(i) /ɕ/
Polish Latin Letter Polish Cyrillic Character Phoneme
A a А а /a/
Ą ą Ѫ ѫ /ɔ̃/
B b Б б /b/
C c Ц ц /ts/
Ć ć Ћ ћ /tɕ/
Cz cz Ч ч /tʂ/
D d Д д /d/
Dz dz Ѕ ѕ /dz/
Dź dź Ђ ђ dʑ
Dż dż Џ џ dʐ
E e Е е /ɛ/
Ę ę Ѧ ѧ /ɛ̃/
F f Ф ф /f/
G g Г г /g/
H h X x /x/, /ç/
Ch ch X x /x/, /ç/
I i І і /i/
J j Ј ј /j/
K k К к /k/
L l Љ љ /l/ (/ʎ/)
Ł ł Л л /w/, /ɫ/
M m М м /m/
N n Н н /n/
Ń ń Њ њ /ɲ/
O o О о /ɔ/
Ó ó У у /u/
P p П п /p/
R r Р р /r/
Rz rz Ж ж /ʐ/
S s С с /s/
Ś ś Щ щ /ɕ/
Sz sz Ш ш /ʂ/
T t Т т /t/
U u У у /u/
W w В в /v/
Y y И и /ɨ/
Z z З з /z/
Ź ź Ӂ ӂ /ʑ/
Ż ż Ж ж /ʐ/

[edit] Letters that represent different phonemes

  • Љ љ - Represents /ʎ/ in Serbian and Macedonian but represents /w/ here. This was done because the phoneme /w/ is represented by the letter Ł ł in Polish Latin (a modified L l for etymological reasons) and the only modified Л л in Cyrillic is Љ љ. The phoneme /ʎ/ is found in Polish but is represented by L(i) l(i) in Lаtin and Л(и) л(и) here.
  • Є є - Represents /je/ in Ukrainian but represents /ɛ̃/ here. This is because there are no nasal vowels in any (Slavic) languages using Cyrillic, and a modified Cyrillic Е е was needed. Also, there is no need to represent /je/ in Polish with one letter.
  • Й й - Represents /j/ in Bulgarian, Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian but represents /ɨ/ here. Ј ј was already used to represent /j/ as it was identical to the letter used in Polish Latin (J j) for the phoneme. Й й was chosen to represent /ɨ/ because of the similarity in pronunciation to the phoneme /i/ (presented by И и).
  • Ӂ ӂ - Represented /dʒ/ in Moldovan but represents /ʑ/ here. Џ џ was already used to represent /dʒ/ and there was no Cyrillic letter representing /ʑ/ (separately from /ʒ/ or /ʐ/). The phoneme /ʑ/ is similar to the phoneme /ʐ/ and so this is reflected here: Ӂ ӂ is similar to Ж ж.
  • Щ щ - Represents /ʃt/ in Bulgarian and /ʃtʃ/ in Ukrainian but represents /ɕ:/ in Russian and /ɕ/ here. There was no need to represent /ʃt/ and /ʃtʃ/ with one letter here and there was no Cyrillic letter representing /ɕ/ (separately from /ʃ/ or /ʂ/). As the phoneme /ɕ/ is similar to the phoneme /ʂ/, Щ щ was chosen because it is similar to Ш ш (coupled with the fact that Russian uses this letter for a lengthened /ɕ/ - /ɕ:/)
  • Ў ў - Represents /w/ in Belarusian but /ɔ̃/ here. This is because the phoneme /w/ was already represented by Љ љ (see above). Also, the phoneme /ɔ̃/ is represented by the Polish Latin letter Ą ą (even though it is a nasal "o", not a nasal "a"), causing much confusion, and so any modified vowel could have been used. Ў ў was chosen because it was from a Slavic language.