Polish contemporary alphabet contains 32 letters. There are 9 unique characters with diacritic symbols (Ą, Ć, Ę, Ł, Ń, Ó, Ś, Ź, Ż), and there is no Q, V and X—this makes a total surplus of 6 characters in comparison to English alphabet. Due to this number noisecode had to be either extended by a new noise, or special characters had to be combine-coded by a sequence of a base letter and a diacritic symbol. I chose the latter option, mainly because having kept a constant set of noises enables me to contrast and compare noisecode.pl with noisecode.en. Therefore, 9 characters in noisecode.pl are expressed with a set of two pairs of noises instead of a single pair as in case of standard letters.
Yellow lines indicate combine-coded special characters:
base letter linked with a diacritic symbol.
Grey lines indicate dighraph rules.
Dotted lines indicate a trigraph rule.
Apart from the set of noises used to code letters in noisecode.pl, there are some other important similarities shared with noisecode.en:
• all vowels are composed with the 'mains hum 60Hz' noise (with the 'Hum+Hum' pair coding the diacritic symbol used for A and E only and transforming them into nasal vowels);
• coding of start/stop and space stays the same;
• the digraph and a trigraph rule is used to code letter clusters.
Note two significant differences between noisecode.PL and niosecode.en which may have great impact on the final audio form of each language:
• Polish alphabet contains more characters and, therefore—according to the alphabet principle—...
• ...there is much less digraph/trighraph rules in Polish alphabet (PL=8/1 while EN=35/5).
