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Suggestions to revive the Bohorič script were advanced in the 1980s. Several people suggested that a modified version of the script should be revived for IT purposes because the first
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The script remained unchallenged until the 1820s, when there were several attempts to replace them with phonetic alphabets. The two best-known attempts were made by
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sound preceding R was strictly written with the letter E, while in modern Slovene the E is omitted (except before word-final R): the Slovene name for the city of
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since 1555 and then used extensively for almost thirty years. It differed somewhat from the original alphabet, partly also due to changes introduced by
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In the late 18th century, with the revival of Slovene, Bohorič's script came back into general use. It was modernized by 18th-century philologists
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Slovenian has eight vowels, but the Bohorič alphabet only has five vowel characters (this flaw is shared by modern Slovenian orthography).
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in Slovene. However, Trubar did not follow strict rules and often used alternate spellings for the same word.
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and thus did not follow the Bohorič orthography at all) was adopted by a group of authors around the journal
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The Bohorič alphabet was quite successful, but it suffered from a number of flaws:
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proposed a compromise solution by introducing a slightly modified version of
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It did not distinguish vowel length (nor does modern Slovenian orthography).
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completely replaced Bohorič's script; it remains in use in Slovenia today.
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Bohorič's alphabet was first codified in 1584 by the Protestant author
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for general use could not handle non-standard Latin characters (i.e.,
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There were other differences from the modern Slovene orthography. The
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It did not distinguish tone (nor does modern Slovenian orthography).
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The combination "sh" could be read as two separate letters or as a
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Comparison of standard Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian
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destroyed completely the Protestant religious community in the
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