Single Latin Alphabet for Slavic

OTL we ended up with 3 (ignoring IPA and similar Romanisation):
1 for Polish, 1 for Czech and Slovak, and 1 for the Southern Slavic languages.

Could we have a single, common, alphabet in use? And what would it look like?
 
Jagiellons continue to rule in Poland, Lithuania, Hungary and Bohemia, thus almost all Slavs using Latin script are under Jagiellon rule. That would make cultural contacts between these nations stronger. In such case other Slavs, (with exception of Czechs maybe) would adapt Polish based orthography (so digraphs instead of carons, 'w' instead of 'v' and so on).
 
Jagiellons continue to rule in Poland, Lithuania, Hungary and Bohemia, thus almost all Slavs using Latin script are under Jagiellon rule. That would make cultural contacts between these nations stronger. In such case other Slavs, (with exception of Czechs maybe) would adapt Polish based orthography (so digraphs instead of carons, 'w' instead of 'v' and so on).

They might get involved in the Balkans fighting the Ottomans which would put them in direct contact with South Slavs as well
 
They might get involved in the Balkans fighting the Ottomans which would put them in direct contact with South Slavs as well
Croats already lived under Jagiellon rule, so it already happen IOTL. IOTL at the time of national revival and standarisation of national scripts during 19th century, most of Western Christian Slavic nations lived in Austria-Hungary, thus Czech orthography was used as model by them, had Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth survive and thrive, Polish orthography would be more popular choice likely. IOTL all Slavic languages using primarly Latin script, with exception of Polish and Kashubian and partially Sorbian (not Serbian!), use Czech-based orthographies, Sorbian use mixture of Polish and Czech. Untill 19th century, not fully standardised Croatian and Slovak orthographies were heavy influenced by Hungarian orthography.
 
Croats already lived under Jagiellon rule, so it already happen IOTL. IOTL at the time of national revival and standarisation of national scripts during 19th century, most of Western Christian Slavic nations lived in Austria-Hungary, thus Czech orthography was used as model by them, had Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth survive and thrive, Polish orthography would be more popular choice likely. IOTL all Slavic languages using primarly Latin script, with exception of Polish and Kashubian and partially Sorbian (not Serbian!), use Czech-based orthographies, Sorbian use mixture of Polish and Czech. Untill 19th century, not fully standardised Croatian and Slovak orthographies were heavy influenced by Hungarian orthography.
Looking at it Polish orthography came some time after Jan Hus's protoCzech one was being promoted. So it's entirely possible that a variant of that is taken up by the Jagiellons.
 
Looking at it Polish orthography came some time after Jan Hus's protoCzech one was being promoted. So it's entirely possible that a variant of that is taken up by the Jagiellons.
Polish orthography took (rougly) modern shape by the end of 16th century (although was reshaped significantly in 1936) so Polish orthography also could look differently-there were strange ideas floating around during 15/16th century, like introduction of Greek letters.
 
It may make sense to weaken Russia too, in addition to the Jagiellons, as they were responsible for spreading to the Cyrillic alphabet to Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and plenty of non-slavic nations as well.
 
It may make sense to weaken Russia too, in addition to the Jagiellons, as they were responsible for spreading to the Cyrillic alphabet to Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and plenty of non-slavic nations as well.
Bulgarians, Serbians etc. already used Cyrillic script long before Russians.
 
Maybe a Catholic Eastern Europe? I’m not quite sure, but a Latin copy of the Bible gaining traction there during christianization would help with this if I’m correct, which I’m not much of a Slavic historian/linguistic, but it seems as if scripts can travel with faith well.
 
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