TOPONYMIC GUIDELINES OF POLAND - KSNG Nazwy geograficzne

TOPONYMIC GUIDELINES OF POLAND - KSNG Nazwy geograficzne TOPONYMIC GUIDELINES OF POLAND - KSNG Nazwy geograficzne

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w W [v] woda WarszawayY [i ] wyżyna Szyszkiz Z [z] zatoka ZakopaneźŹ [z] źródło ŹródłażŻ [z] żleb ŻninInternational Phonetic Alphabet after ‘Gramatyka współczesnegojęzyka polskiego’ Vol. 1, by Leokadia Dukiewicz, Irena Sawicka,‘Fonetyka i fonologia’, Kraków 1995.Basic Rules of Polish SpellingPolish spelling originated during the Middle Ages. It was thenmodified and improved over the next few centuries. Current Polishspelling is based on the rules codified in 1936 with a few minorchanges.The following rules apply to the Polish spelling (whichsometimes are in conflict with each other):– the phonetic rule, stating that each voice should berepresented by a unique letter as in dom, las, woda,– the morphological rule, stating that a link between differentforms of one word or its derivatives should be maintained despite thefact that their current pronunciation may differ e.g. próg, gen. sgprogu, bór sg, bory pl,– the historic rule, which maintains different orthography ofsounds formerly pronounced differently (compare rzeka and żuławy,bór and pustynia, chłodnia and huta), and– the conventional rule, e.g. capitalization of geographic names.Rules of PronunciationThere are 36 phonemes in Polish. In Polish spelling thesephonemes are represented by particular letters or by theircombinations. A single letter can correspond to more than onephonemevariants, and also two separate letters can represent the same16

phoneme (e.g. ch – h, rz – ż). In particular the rules refer to thepronunciation of nasal vowels and voiced consonants.Phoneme Pronunciation Example Position(API)/ ~ o / ~ o Gąski before fricative consonantsom Dąbki before p, bon Łącko before c, cz, d, dz, ton Mącice before ć,ci,dź,dzioη Łąkowo before k, g/b/ p Lubsko,Niesóbbefore voiceless consonantsand as final soundsbBusko,Kołbielin other positions/x/ x Chełmx Hrubieszów in standard pronunciation/γ/ γ Hrubieszów voiced in regional pronunciation(eastern Poland)/d/ t Zawadka,Nowogródbefore voiceless consonantsand as final sounds/dz/d Dębsko in other positions)tsKłodzko,Luboradzbefore voiceless consonantsand as final soundsd ) zRadzyń in other positions17

w W [v] woda WarszawayY [i ] wyżyna Szyszkiz Z [z] zatoka ZakopaneźŹ [z] źródło ŹródłażŻ [z] żleb ŻninInternational Phonetic Alphabet after ‘Gramatyka współczesnegojęzyka polskiego’ Vol. 1, by Leokadia Dukiewicz, Irena Sawicka,‘Fonetyka i fonologia’, Kraków 1995.Basic Rules of Polish SpellingPolish spelling originated during the Middle Ages. It was thenmodified and improved over the next few centuries. Current Polishspelling is based on the rules codified in 1936 with a few minorchanges.The following rules apply to the Polish spelling (whichsometimes are in conflict with each other):– the phonetic rule, stating that each voice should berepresented by a unique letter as in dom, las, woda,– the morphological rule, stating that a link between differentforms of one word or its derivatives should be maintained despite thefact that their current pronunciation may differ e.g. próg, gen. sgprogu, bór sg, bory pl,– the historic rule, which maintains different orthography ofsounds formerly pronounced differently (compare rzeka and żuławy,bór and pustynia, chłodnia and huta), and– the conventional rule, e.g. capitalization of geographic names.Rules of PronunciationThere are 36 phonemes in Polish. In Polish spelling thesephonemes are represented by particular letters or by theircombinations. A single letter can correspond to more than onephonemevariants, and also two separate letters can represent the same16

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