Czech has one of the most phonemic orthographies of all European languages. Its thirty-one graphemes represent thirty sounds (in most dialects, i and y have the same sound), and it contains only one digraph: ch, which follows h in the alphabet. As a result, some of its characters have been used by phonologists to denote corresponding sounds in other languages. The characters q, w and x appear only in foreign words. The háček (ˇ) is used with certain letters to form new characters: š, ž, and č, as well as ň, ě, ř, ť, and ď (the latter five uncommon outside Czech). The last two letters are sometimes written with a comma above (ʼ, an abbreviated háček) because of their height. The character ó exists only in loanwords and onomatopoeia. COUNT 5
QSN1 What language has one of the most phonemic orthographies of all European languages? ANS1 Czech QSN2 How many graphemes does Czech have? ANS2 thirty-one QSN3 What have some of Czech's characters been used for by phonologists to denote? ANS3 corresponding sounds in other languages QSN4 What character in Czech only exists in loanwords? ANS4 ó QSN5 In Czech, what type of words do the characters "q", "w" and "x" exclusively appear in? ANS5 foreign