Gaj's Latin alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet devised by Croat Ljudevit Gaj, in his 1830 book, Kratka osnova horvatsko-slavenskogo pravopisanja (A short primer of Croatian-Slavic orthography). It is the only script of the Croatian standard language in current use, and one of the two scripts of the Bosnian and Serbian standard languages. The script was also one of two official scripts used for the Serbo-Croatian language prior to the dem...
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Gaj's Latin alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet devised by Croat Ljudevit Gaj, in his 1830 book, Kratka osnova horvatsko-slavenskogo pravopisanja (A short primer of Croatian-Slavic orthography). It is the only script of the Croatian standard language in current use, and one of the two scripts of the Bosnian and Serbian standard languages. The script was also one of two official scripts used for the Serbo-Croatian language prior to the demise of Yugoslavia. A slightly modified version is also used as the script for the Slovenian language. The alphabet is also used for the Banat version of the Bulgarian language.
It consists of thirty upper and lowercase letters:
The original Gaj's alphabet contained a digraph , which was later replaced by the letter .
The letters don't have names, and consonants are normally pronounced as such when spelling is necessary (or followed by a short schwa, e.g. /fə/). In science and mathematics, only 26 letters of the basic modern Latin alphabet...
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