policy wrt politics (was RE: be-tarask language subtag registration form)

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 14:06:17 CEST 2007


Jaska Zedlik schreef:
> YT> There really isn't any separate -Latn variant of the Belarusian
> YT> language (grammar rules etc.), there's an uncodified as of yet Latin
> YT> graphical system.
>
> Taraskievic published the orthography in the Latin script as well as
> in Cyrillic script. It can be considerad as codification.
>
> Besides this there are at least 4 teachbooks with Latin orthography
> by different authors published between 1930th and 1960th.
>
> YT> I don't know whether this makes it valid separate language.
>
> This makes a separate script, but the language is one.
>
> Jaska Zedlik
Hoi,
 From what you write, the Latin orthography is derived from a Cyrillic 
orthography. Does this mean that there are four varieties? Standard 
Cyrillic and Standard Latin as well as Classic Cyrillic and Classic 
Latin. Would the default for "be" be the Standard Cyrillic ??
Thanks,
     Gerard



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