Dajnko alphabet

The Dajnko alphabet (Slovene: dajnčica) was a Slovene alphabet invented by Peter Dajnko. It was used from 1824 to 1839 mostly in Styria (in what is now eastern Slovenia).

South Slavic languages and dialects
Western South Slavic
Eastern South Slavic
Transitional dialects
Alphabets
a Includes Banat Bulgarian alphabet.
A poem by Dajnko in the Dajnko alphabet

History

Dajnko introduced his alphabet in 1824 in his book Lehrbuch der windischen Sprache (Slovene Textbook).[1] He decided to replace the older Bohorič alphabet with his own new writing system because of the problems with the writing of sibilants.[2] In 1825, Franc Serafin Metelko came up with a similar proposal, complicating the issue. The Dajnko alphabet, which was introduced to schools in 1831, was fiercely opposed by Anton Murko and Anton Martin Slomšek.[3] After 1834 it gradually came out of use with the adoption of a slightly modified version of Gaj's Latin alphabet as the new Slovene script and was in 1839 officially abolished.[4]

Letters

He represented the phonemes /ts/, /s/, /z/ with the letters C, S, Z (as in the modern Slovene alphabet) and the phonemes /tʃ/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/ with special characters (see table below). In addition, he invented two extra symbols, which were omitted after 1829 (see table below):

Dajnčica
Upper caseLower caseIPAModern Slovene
C c/ts/c
Ч ɥ/tʃ/č
S s/s/s
Ȣ ȣ/ʃ/š
Z z/z/z
X x/ʒ/ž
Ŋ ŋ/ɲ/nj
Y y/y/ü (in eastern dialects only)

Dajnko's alphabetical order was as follows:

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

The IETF language tags have assigned the variant sl-dajnko to Slovene in the Dajnko alphabet.[5]

References
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  1. "Dajnkova slovnica" [The Grammar of Dajnko]. Kamra (in Slovenian). 8 October 2012. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  2. Prilasnig, Fabian (2011). "Dajnčica". Die Entwicklung des slawischen Schrifttums [The Development of the Slavic Literatures] (in German). GRIN Verlag. p. 17. ISBN 9783656051015.
  3. Mugerli, Anja. "Dajnčica". In Ahačič, Kozma (ed.). Slovenski črkopisi [Slovene Alphabets] (PDF) (in Slovenian). pp. 26–28.
  4. Prilasnig, Fabian (2011). "Dajnčica". Die Entwicklung des slawischen Schrifttums (in German). GRIN Verlag. p. 17. ISBN 9783656051015.
  5. "IETF language subtag registry". IANA. 2021-08-06. Retrieved 10 September 2021.


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