Re: Eastern cz sz

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> At 5:58:46 AM on Friday, February 1, 2008, afyangh wrote:

>> I have a question about cz sz in the eastern european
>> writings : When did that started ?

> I believe that the digraphs <cz> for [c^] and <sz> for [S]
> are specifically Polish. I've seen them in onomastic
> sources by the later 14th century.

> May I know your sources ?

Witold Taszycki, ed., Sl/ownik Staropolskich Nazw Osobowych.

> cz and sz are also used in Hungarian.

Hungarian uses <sz> for [s], not [S], and it does not have <cz>;
for [c^] it uses <cs>.

Brian