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DaedalusIIlast Wednesday at 11:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

polish logically should be rendered in cyrillic as the cyrillic orthography more closely matches the sounds and consonant structure of slavic languages like polish and russian, although this has never been done for church reasons . maybe this is confusing ai


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iagooarlast Wednesday at 11:46 PM

Polish has been written with Latin alphabet since the 13th century. And before it simply wasn't written.

Polish works with the Latin alphabet just fine.

"Do kraju tego, gdzie kruszynę chleba podnoszą z ziemi przez uszanowanie dla darów Nieba.... Tęskno mi, Panie..."

"Mimozami jesień się zaczyna, złotawa, krucha i miła. To ty, to ty jesteś ta dziewczyna, która do mnie na ulicę wychodziła."

viraptoryesterday at 9:36 AM

> although this has never been done for church reasons

That's not the case. Polish uses Latin-like alphabet due to Czech influence and German printers.