INTERSLAVIC uses two alphabet styles - "Latin" and "Cyrillic". The Latin version has 23 "basic" letters, 8 caron/haček accented letters - 5 of which are written as a kind of small letter ' v ' atop the letter: (č, ň, ř, š and ž) and 3 are written as apostrophes after the letter: (ď , ľ, ť). The sounds represented by these letters, while common among all of the Slavic languages, are only familiar to English language speakers in 3 instances: č, š and ž. For č, š and ž - the letters c, s, z followed by the special letter "x"- cx, sx and zx (e.g.: Škola becomes Sxkola).