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A song in dajnčica, by P. Dajnko

Dajnko alphabet or dajnčica was a Slovene writing system invented by Peter Dajnko. Peter Dajnko ( April 23 1787 - February 22 1873) was a Slovenian Priest, Author and Linguist, It was used in years 1824 - 1839 - mostly in the region of Styria (in what is now eastern Slovenia). Year 1824 ( MDCCCXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Year 1839 ( MDCCCXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Lower Styria (Štajerska Untersteiermark Latin: Styria) is a historical region in northeastern Slovenia, comprising the southern third of the former Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia (Republika Slovenija) is a Country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west

Dajnko introduced his alphabet in 1824 in the book Lehrbuch der windischen Sprache = Book for learning slovene language (written in German). Year 1824 ( MDCCCXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year He decided to replace older Bohorič alphabet with his own new writing system. The Bohorič alphabet (bohoričica was an Orthography used for the Slovene language between the 16th and 19th centuries He decided to write phonemes /ts/, /s/, /z/ with letters C, S, Z (equally as in modern slovene alphabet) and phonemes /tʃ/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/ with special letters (see table bellow). The Slovene alphabet is an extension of the Latin alphabet and is used in the Slovene. Besides he invented two extra symbols, which were omitted after 1829 (see table bellow):

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

The Dajnko alphabet was no longer in use after 1839. For the game see 1829 (board game. Year 1829 ( MDCCCXXIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display Year 1839 ( MDCCCXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Soon after that Slovenes began using Gaj's alphabet imported from Croatian.

External links

Dajnčica, text sample

References

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

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