Ar an 12ú lá de mí 2, scríobh Markus Kuhn : > It's certainly difficult, but not impossible. Turkey is the major > successful case I know of, where a script reform has succeeded. It was > driven by a major political move to make the country overall more > secular and compatible with Europe.
It also took place in the context of a very low literacy rate, where the writing script of the language simply didn't matter to most people. Compare 1920s Turkey with the near-universal literacy of most of the smaller Gulf Arab states, and you'll see more of a problem. Besides, with one central government, as Turkey had, a single law is in a position to change the language script. How many Arab states are there? And, just to put this in some context, how much discussion was necessary to eliminate ß from German? > German's abandoning of fraktur probabaly doesn't count, as that's > really just a different font style, not a fundamentally differently > structed alphabet or reading direction. > Does anyone know of any other examples or successful major script > reforms (apart from the semi-successful Soviet attempts to force > all their republics to switch to cyrillic)? I don't know that the writing of Yiddish in Hebraic script is the example you want to hear here :-) (Given that it was a move away from Roman script; though I suppose, for a long time, if the language was written in Roman script it would have called itself German.) -- `... when the elephant man broke strong men's necks, when he'd had too many Powers, ...' _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
