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: A , Á , B , C , Č , D , Ď , E , É , Ě , F , G , H , Ch , I , Í , J , K , L , M , N , Ň , O , Ó , P , Q , R , Ř , S , Š , T , Ť , U , Ú , Ů , V , W , X , Y , Ý , Z , Ž However, the letters Q and W are used exclusively in foreign words, and are soon replaced with Kv and V once the word becomes "naturalized", and the letters with Háček s and Acutes are usually treated as variants, and the 26-letter Latin alphabet is used plus Ch. Most of the Diacritic letters were added to the alphabet through reforms brought about by Jan Hus at the beginning of the 15th Century to replace the Digraphs and Trigraphs used to write Czech sounds that had no equivalent in the Latin Alphabet . During the 16th Century , the letter "Ů" (historically an "Ó" but now pronounced as "Ú") was added to the list. The only digraph left in the alphabet is "Ch", being ordered between the "H" and "I", indicating the sound similar to the German "ch" or the Russian "Х" ( IPA /x/). The Acute Accent letters (Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú, Ý) and Ů indicate long Vowel s. They have the same alphabetical ordering as their non-diacritic counterparts. The Hacek (ˇ) indicates historical Palatalization of the base letter. The letters Č, Ř, Š, and Ž currently represent Postalveolar Consonant s and are ordered behind their corresponding base letters; while Ď, Ň, Ť represent Palatal Consonant s and have the same alphabetical ordering as their non-diacritic counterparts. CZECH ALPHABET SPELLING COMPUTER ENCODING In Computing , several different coding standards have existed for this alphabet:
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