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What if: New Polish Orthography | Nowa Ortografia
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Now before I get downvoted to kindom come: I am not actively pursuing this, also his will probably never happen anyway. Also be open minded; personally I think it could look nice if tweaked to become an official revamp for our language. Also a a native Pole, I feel I have a right to be able to question such a matter without evoking too much butt-hurtedness. Either way please, lets all stay civil now.

Without further ado here it is:

A [Á] B C Ć Č D [Ď] E [É] F G H I [Í] J K L [Ľ- ?] M N Ń O Ó [Ö] P R Ŕ S Ś Š T [Ť] U [Ú] Ŭ V Y Z Ž Ź

The letters encased in [] are optional and I am not entirely sure if it is necessary, but phonetically speaking would improve pronunciation of hard or extended syllables. Others are simply added to remove digraphs such as io, jo, iu, ie, ij etc. And lastly, I do not think the Slovak counterpart makes the same sound, however I am curious as to whether or not Ľ could replace the Slavic Non-Palatal Ł. Its not really a big deal, but it looks smoother to me; not as noisy as Ł.

As for the missing ą & ę. They're not gone, they have simply been replaced by a digraph that makes more linguistic sense. They [or should I say the sounds of] ą & ę would be replaced by diphthongs aŭ & eŭ. This is reminiscent of what the Belarussian language does with its "ў," which is used in the diphthongs aŭ, eŭ, oŭ. Like I stated before, this change is merely for the sake of better linguistic/orthographic flow. Who cares about heritage/word length etc, really. It will also make it easier for learners to read and even for Polish school children to learn the pronunciation of in primary Ed. So, this is a primarily functional rather than formal change.

So, with that I conclude my spare time progressive-reconstruction project of the lovely Polish orthography. I hope you enjoy it; please comment what you think! (:

Extra thought as I am about to post this: what about a possibility of simply replacing Ł with oŭ when not at the beginning of a word? Let me know what you think of this Reddit. :P

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