Use
Łacinka was occasionally used in the Belarusian area mainly in the 19th century and first years of the 20th century. Belarusian was officially written only in the Latin script between 1941 and 1944, in the Nazi German-occupied Belarusian territories.
It is used occasionally in its current form by certain authors, groups and promoters in the Nasha Niva weekly, the ARCHE journal, and some of the Belarusian diaspora press on the Internet.
It is not, as such, the Romanisation system, as it imposes knowing certain accompanying orthographic conventions. It is similar to the Sorbian alphabet, incorporating features of the Polish and Czech alphabets.
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| * Cyrillic е, ё, і, ю, я are equivalent to je, jo, ji, ju, ja initially or after a vowel, to e, o, i, u, a after the consonants ć, dź, l, ń, ś, ź, and to ie, io, i, iu, ia after other consonants. |
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