Metelko alphabet was a Slovene writing system developed by Franc Serafin Metelko. It was used by a small group of authors from 1825 to 1833 but it was never generally accepted. Metelko introduced his alphabet in the book Lehrgebäude der slowenischen Sprache (a book for learning Slovene; written in German). He invented his alphabet in order to replace the formerly used Bohorič alphabet (bohoričica), which was problematic in certain situations.

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  • Metelko alphabet was a Slovene writing system developed by Franc Serafin Metelko. It was used by a small group of authors from 1825 to 1833 but it was never generally accepted. Metelko introduced his alphabet in the book Lehrgebäude der slowenischen Sprache (a book for learning Slovene; written in German). He invented his alphabet in order to replace the formerly used Bohorič alphabet (bohoričica), which was problematic in certain situations. Metelko was influenced by the ideas of Jernej Kopitar, a well-known linguist who also participated in the development of the modern Serbian alphabet (created by Vuk Karadžić, following Kopitar's ideas). Metelko's alphabet has 32 letters in following alphabetical order: A B D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V Special letters are explained in following table (other letters have the same meaning as in modern Slovene): Metelko wanted to solve the problem of the formerly used digraphs ZH and SH by replacing them with special letters, and . Metelko also added special letters for common groups, and . The difference between glottal and velar H is in fact not important for Slovene speakers, therefore the letter was omitted by some authors. In the formerly used Bohorič alphabet, certain words with different pronunciation had the same spelling. Metelko wanted to solve this problem by splitting E into three and O into two variants. Metelko's letters E, and represent the vowels /ɛ/, /e/ and /ə/, which were formerly written with E. Metelko's letters O and represent the vowels /o/ and /ɔ/, which were formerly written with O. The main problem of Metelko's alphabet was its graphic design. Metelko's letters appeared strange to the average Slovene writer and the alphabet itself was soon nicknamed krevljica - the twisted alphabet. Some letters were in fact difficult to write in handwriting. Besides Metelko was strongly influenced by his own dialect, certain solutions were not accepted by speakers of other dialects. Soon strong opposition rose against Metelko's alphabet. After the "Slovene alphabet war" Metelko's alphabet was forbidden in 1833. A few years later Slovenes accepted Gaj's Latin alphabet, which is easier to write. In this alphabet variants in pronunciation are written using accents (é, ê, ó, ô, etc. ) but only in cases when it is necessary in order to distinguish two words.
  • Metelčica byla jednou z abeced, které se během tzv. sporu o abecedu, používaly pro zápis slovinského jazyka. Jejím tvůrcem byl Franc Serafin Metelko, používala se mezi lety 1825 a 1833. Metelko ji představil v knize Lehrgebäude der slowenischen Sprache. Měla nahradit tehdy používanou bohoročicu, nicméně mezi jednotlivými lingvisty vypukl namísto shody a přijetí jednotné verze komplikovaný spor. Tento problém byl nakonec vyřešen přijetím upravené chorvatské abecedy Ljudevita Gaje (tzv. Gajice) v roce 1833. Metelčica vynikala především výpůjčkami z cizích písem, hlavně tedy cyrilice, a to v případě takových slovinských hlásek, pro které neměla běžná latinka západních jazyků ekvivalent. Celá abeceda tak vypadala následovně: A B D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V
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  • Metelko alphabet was a Slovene writing system developed by Franc Serafin Metelko. It was used by a small group of authors from 1825 to 1833 but it was never generally accepted. Metelko introduced his alphabet in the book Lehrgebäude der slowenischen Sprache (a book for learning Slovene; written in German). He invented his alphabet in order to replace the formerly used Bohorič alphabet (bohoričica), which was problematic in certain situations.
  • Metelčica byla jednou z abeced, které se během tzv. sporu o abecedu, používaly pro zápis slovinského jazyka. Jejím tvůrcem byl Franc Serafin Metelko, používala se mezi lety 1825 a 1833. Metelko ji představil v knize Lehrgebäude der slowenischen Sprache. Měla nahradit tehdy používanou bohoročicu, nicméně mezi jednotlivými lingvisty vypukl namísto shody a přijetí jednotné verze komplikovaný spor.
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  • Metelko alphabet
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