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I wonder if we had ž etc like Czechs would it make it easier for foreigners to read
Fun fact: The Czech adopted š, č and ž to look less German. The Lithuanians adopted it to look less Polish.
Based Jan Hus. Sparking religious wars and linguistic reforms.
That happened hundreds of years after Hus.
That's actually a fun fact :D. I do wish Polish would adopt this signs though, just so we wouldn't have these digraphs
Is ź and ż not enough? =D
It would certainly make Polish easier to read for Czechs. Not sure about other foreigners, šžčřě might be just as alien.
I'm learning Polish, and spelling (rz dz sz cz ł and ą ę ż ś) is all fine for me-- the thing I struggle with is the grammatical cases. The fact that the ending of everything changes is what has caused me to give up twice 🥺
I will pick it up again, but I sucked at the Masculine/Feminine thing with French, and this is a lot more difficult.
CAT:
Przepraszam moja drogi!!
Looks weired but a sound of C and T has to be somehow connected, at least it feels like they are to me. Based on my experience, sound of Polish Ć and Czech Ť are transitional between Polish/Czech T/C. Proper linguist might put some more light on it than just my speculation.
Our C is reffered in IPA as joined "TS" sound, so there is definitely some merit to that
Polish C is also described as /t͡s/ (e.g. co /t͡sɔ/). According to wiki both are dental and voiceless although one is plosive and the other affricate. As I've read their descriptions on wiki, they made a lot of sense - /t͡s/ starts with a blockade of airway (just as /t/) but the air is released slightly differently thus making the difference in sound produced.
The T turning into C is called somehow, I don't remember how, but it's used quite often. For example, "expensive" and "more expensive" would be "drogo" and "drożej". I think there were even some tables for all the transformations, but I might misremember things