Faggin-Nazzi
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The Faggin-Nazzi alphabet is an orthographic system proposed to write the Friulian language
, named after its creators, Gianni Nazzi and Giorgio Faggin. It was created before the orthography which is today standard for Friulian, that was developed by Catalan linguist Xavier Lamuela. Today Faggin-Nazzi is used rarely, also because it uses letters typical of Slavic languages
, such as č, which are unfamiliar for most Furlans due to dissimilarity from the Italian alphabet
.
Friulian language
Friulan , is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaeto-Romance family, spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy. Friulan has around 800,000 speakers, the vast majority of whom also speak Italian...
, named after its creators, Gianni Nazzi and Giorgio Faggin. It was created before the orthography which is today standard for Friulian, that was developed by Catalan linguist Xavier Lamuela. Today Faggin-Nazzi is used rarely, also because it uses letters typical of Slavic languages
Slavic languages
The Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.-Branches:Scholars traditionally divide Slavic...
, such as č, which are unfamiliar for most Furlans due to dissimilarity from the Italian alphabet
Italian alphabet
The Italian alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet used by the Italian language.-Vowels:The Italian alphabet has five vowel letters, ⟨a e i o u⟩. Of those, only ⟨a⟩ represents one sound value while each of the others has two...
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