Montenegrin alphabet considered as digraphs). These parallel the two letters of the Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet not found in Serbian, С́ and З́. These, respectively, could also be represented in the original alphabets as "šj" and "žj", and шj and жj. It also uses some Latin extended letters, composed with a basic Latin letter and one of two combining accents (the acute accent or caron, over C, S, and Z), and a supplementary base consonant Đ: they are needed to note additional phonetic distinctions (notably to preserve the distinctions that are present in the Cyrillic script with which the Montenegrin language has also
Ottoman Turkish alphabet second letter of a syllable: "elif" for /a/; "ye" for /i/, /ɯ/; "vav" for /o/, /œ/, /u/, /y/; "he" for /a/, /e/. The corresponding "harakat" are there: "ustun" (Arabic "fatḥah") for /a/, /e/; "esre" (Arabic "kasrah") for /ɯ/, /i/; "ötre" (Arabic "ḍammah") for /o/, /œ/, /u/, /y/. The names of the "harakat" are also used for the corresponding vowels. Other scripts were sometimes used by non-Muslims to write Ottoman Turkish since the Arabic alphabet was identified with Islam. The first novel to be written in the Ottoman Empire was "Akabi" (1851), which was written in the Armenian script by Vartan