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  2. Cyrillization of Polish - Wikipedia

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    The Cyrillization of Polish has been practised in many forms and began in the mid-19th century in the Russian Empire. Between 1772 and 1815, the Russian Empire seized about four-fifths of Poland-Lithuania , where Polish was the leading official language.

  3. Cyrillization - Wikipedia

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    The Cyrillic letter Dwe, a commonly cited example of both Cyrillization and a native language's ability to influence its imposed writing system. Cyrillization or Cyrillisation is the process of rendering words of a language that normally uses a writing system other than Cyrillic script into (a version of) the Cyrillic alphabet.

  4. Polish alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Polish alphabet (Polish: alfabet polski, abecadło) is the script of the Polish language, the basis for the Polish system of orthography. It is based on the Latin alphabet but includes certain letters (9) with diacritics : the acute accent – kreska : ć, ń, ó, ś, ź ; the overdot – kropka : ż ; the tail or ogonek – ą, ę ; and ...

  5. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    For example, classical performers most often use sheet music using staves, time signatures, key signatures, and noteheads for writing and deciphering pieces. But even so, there are far more systems just that, for instance in professional country music , the Nashville Number System is the main method, and for string instruments such as guitar ...

  6. Polish orthography - Wikipedia

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    Polish orthography is the system of writing the Polish language. The language is written using the Polish alphabet, which derives from the Latin alphabet , but includes some additional letters with diacritics .

  7. History of Polish orthography - Wikipedia

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    Poles began writing in Polish in the 12th century using the Latin alphabet. [1] This alphabet, however, was ill-equipped to deal with Polish phonology, particularly the palatal consonants (now written as ś, ź, ć, dź), the retroflex group (now sz, ż, and cz) as well as the nasal vowels (now written as ą, ę).

  8. Jesse Eisenberg Explains Why He Applied for Polish ...

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    Jesse Eisenberg says he is in the process of becoming a citizen of Poland. “I applied for Polish citizenship about 9 months ago. Apparently, all the paperwork has already been submitted and I ...

  9. Polish phonology - Wikipedia

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    Polish obstruents (stops, affricates and fricatives) are subject to voicing and devoicing in certain positions. This leads to neutralization of voiced/voiceless pairs in those positions (or equivalently, restrictions on the distribution of voiced and voiceless consonants).