Wilamowicean Alphabet
Vilamovian has been for centuries mostly a spoken language. It was not until the times of Florian Biesik, the first author of major literary works in the language, that a need for a separate version of a Latin alphabet arose. Biesik wrote most of his works in plain Polish alphabet, which he considered better-suited for the phonetics of his language. In recent times Józef Gara, another author of works in the local language, devised a distinct Vilamovian alphabet, consisting of 34 letters derived from the Latin script and mostly based on Polish as well:
| Majuscule forms (also called uppercase or capital letters) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A | Ao | B | C | Ć | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | Ł | M | N | Ń | O | Ö | P | Q | R | S | Ś | T | U | Ü | V | W | Y | Z | Ź | Ż |
| Minuscule forms (also called lowercase or small letters) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| a | ao | b | c | ć | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | ł | m | n | ń | o | ö | p | q | r | s | ś | t | u | ü | v | w | y | z | ź | ż |
Wilamowicean orthography includes the digraph "AO", which is treated as a separate letter.
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—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)