AHC - German / Fraktur influenced Script with Faux-Cyrillic elements

The challenge is to have one or more Central European / Eastern European people adopt a Fraktur / German influenced Script with elements of what can only be described as Faux-Cyrillic (in terms of using certain Cyrillic letters in Latin texts).
 
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The challenge is to have one or more Central European / Eastern European people adopt a Fraktur / German influenced Script with elements of what can only be described as Faux-Cyrillic (in terms of using certain Cyrillic letters in Latin texts).

Sounds like it would only really be possible for languages that are both situated in areas politically-dominated by neighbouring German polities, as well as requiring specialised orthography to represent certain sounds. Which basically means this has to be a Slavic area dominated by Germans.

That basically gives us the options of the Wends, Silesians, Czechs and perhaps the Slovenes. Still kinda doubtful though, since they could just adopt specialised accents like Polish, Croatian, Slovenian, basically any Slavic language that writes in the Latin script. But you never know, 19th century construction of literary languages could lead to all sorts of interesting permutations.
 
I'm not sure why you want Fraktur, rather than any other variant of the Latin alphabet.

But, Norse and Anglo-Saxons adopted a couple of letters from runes and/or Gothic, so Polish or Czech could adopt a couple of Cyrillic letters.

Ж (zh), Х (kh), Ц (ts, although German 'z' works fine for this sound), Ч (ch), Ш (sh) would be the obvious candidates.

Technically, I SUPPOSE that hard sign, soft sign, and yeri are possibilities, but I think other orthographic methods of denoting those are more likely.
 

RavenMM

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Maybe invent a new script for german? Developed from some of the monastic orders in the baltics who are somewhat close to the russians. You could have the Umlauts, the sz (ß), the long and short s and maybe cyrillic characters for Sch (IPA ʃ) and Ch (IPA ç or x) sounds. Maybe ei (IPA aɪ), au (IPA aʊ) and eu (IPA ɔʏ or ɔɪ) could take some inspiration from cyrillic vowels.
 
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