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
Turkish alphabet Persian borrowings from the Ottoman Turkish period, most of which have been eliminated from the language. Native Turkish words have no vowel length distinction, and for them the circumflex is used solely to indicate palatalization. The names of the vowel letters are the vowels themselves, whereas the names of the consonant letters are the consonant plus "e". The one exception is "ğ" ("yumuşak ge"; i.e. "soft g"), which cannot begin a word: "a", "be", "ce", "çe", "de", "e", "fe", "ge", "yumuşak ge", "he", "ı", "i", "je", "ke", "le", "me", "ne", "o", "ö", "pe", "re", "se", "şe", "te", "u", "ü", "ve",