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Czech Orthography
Modern Czech orthography was implemented in the early 19th century. Prior to that were numerous changes in the writing of the Czech language that in comparison were relatively minor and incremental, and most of all, were not codified and therefore, not used consistently and universally.
The change to the modern version of Czech writing happened in the early to mid- 19th century. One result of this is that many expatriate Czech names are still based on the older orthography, another is that many searches starting with modern Czech names will have to include the older versions as well as soon as the records become older than 150 to 200 years.
The following list summarizes the major changes in writing:
Old Form |
New Form |
au |
ou |
w |
v |
g,y |
j |
je, ye |
ě |
cz |
č |
rz, rsch, rſſ |
ř |
sz,sch, ſſ |
š |
sch
nj,ny
dj,dy
tj,ty |
ž
ň
ď
ť |
Accented vowels (á, é, í, ó, ú, ů, ý) came in use around the same time and denote a long vowel.