Reshat Sabiq's requests for two Tatar orthographic variants
Doug Ewell
dewell at adelphia.net
Wed Dec 13 06:28:48 CET 2006
CE Whitehead <cewcathar at hotmail dot com> wrote:
> Hi, the USSR does not use primarily a Latin Script but a variant of
> the Greek alphabet so I'm confused as to how Latin is redundant?
> Some of the Greek and Old English characters are included of the
> Latin-1 character set (I guess Old English is more or less
> accommodated by Latin 1). The Russian alphabet is Cyrillic.
This is off-base. Reşat's requests were for Latin-based orthographies
that were used for Tatar and other "minority" languages in the Soviet
Union in the 1930s. They are not related to the Russian language, which
is written in the Cyrillic script, which is ultimately derived from
Greek but cannot reasonaby be called a "variant" of Greek.
To the extent this is relevant, Latin-1 doesn't support Greek at all,
except that the micro sign looks just like a Greek lowercase mu, and the
sharp-s sort of looks like a lowercase beta if you squint.
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