The Esperanto alphabet consists of 28 letters: the 26 letters of the English alphabet, but with "q", "w", "x" and "y" removed, and six accented letters added. The accented letters are "c", "g", "h", "j", and "s" (each with a circumflex accent), and "u" (with a breve accent). Since these accented letters are not included in the ASCII character set, some other means must be used to represent them.
At the time of the writing of the "Dua Libro," the time correlatives ("kiam," "tiam," "iam," "neniam," and "cxiam") were spelled "kian," "tian," "ian," "nenian," and "cxian" (respectively). These words had been changed to their modern forms by the time of publication of the "Aldono al la Dua Libro" …
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